Panerai’s Galileo-inspired, made-to-order luxury timepiece is an undoubted star
New L’astronomo Luminor 1950 Tourbillon Moon Phases Equation of Time GMT features references to Italian and his celestial observations front and back
For those people lucky enough to have attended the luxury watch fair SIHH in the flesh, they’d have known how unique and special the new L’astronomo Luminor 1950 Tourbillon Moon Phases Equation of Time GMT from Panerai was – and not just because it’s a mouthful to read.
I, however, had to wait a little bit until the Panerai timepiece came to Hong Kong before I saw it in the flesh. But the wait was worth it.
The model I saw was the white gold version, reference PAM922 (€225,000, US$260,200).
The timepiece, however, comes in two other versions: red gold (PAM 921, €225,000) and titanium (PAM 920, €199,000).
The L’astronomo is inspired by Galileo Galilei. The first edition of the L’astronomo came out in 2010 to celebrate 400 years since the Italian made his celestial observations using a telescope.
You can see references to Galileo made throughout the piece.