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Hi Stew
Having had 44mm luminous and 47mm subs and a cracker 47mm 6152, I am not an expert, but I know what I like. The slim cased rads are not very WR. It's a triumph of style over substance, sadly. I appreciate the thinner case design and slimness of the new inhouse. I rarely go deeper than 10 meters even with my legitimate diver watches. Perhaps it's a nod to the purpose to which we put our watches these days. As a style statement, I love the vintage lume, the sandwich dial and the whole shebang. If I was a regular diver to great depth, I would have to look elsewhere. Panerai are following a new path with this one, and deferring to divers mainly with the submersible line. What do you think? Would you buy one of the new rads, even with the weak WR?
Like you, I do like the thinner case option and the overall look, but if I were to go this route to take advantage of the new, thinner in-house movements from Panerai, I would likely go with one of the Radiomir 1940 models (which is a nod to the 1940 Radiomir that was produced when the Royal Navy's requirements became even more strict and the wire lugs of the original, late-1930's Radiomir were replaced with the fixed lugs shown on the Radiomir 1940.
Here's a pic of the Radiomir 1940 (this happens to be the smaller 42mm PAM512, but they are available in 45mm too).
Like I said, it's interesting that these, thinner Radiomir 1940 models are rated higher WR with 100m rating versus the 30m rating on the Luminor Due.
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