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All right, so starting off we have a 45 millimeter diameter cushion-sized case. That's the diameter, 45 millimeters from finger to thumb, right. We have, again, the cushion sort of style case. If you look at it face on, you get these rounded sides and the rounded top, with a very, very gentle vertex on each of the four corners, giving it that very cushion like look. To me, more like a Zabuton, a small futon on which you sit in a Tatami room or something like that. But basically, cushion-sized, very symmetrical in its overall appearance. One thing to note here, it doesn't actually have that safety lock for the crown here. So this is less of a military watch; a little bit less sporty, but still no less intriguing in terms of the Panerai model line. We do have the large winding crown as you would expect, very easy to grasp. Very nice deep knurling on that crown, very easy. All of this working together to give you a 100 meter, or 330 foot water resistance below sea level. We have a domed Sapphire crystal on the front and a solid screw-down case back, nice and easy. No need to see the movement, it is a mechanical movement, more on that later. But taking a look over here at this bezel, it is hardly a bezel to really speak of. It's more like just a little holding frame for the Sapphire crystal. It sort of has this matte black overall presentation as you would find on the rest of this watch, the rest of the watch case, rather, giving it a much more diffused look and a very distinctive look as well. It's not there to catch your attention in terms of its aesthetics, but more just to have that wrist presence on the wrist, more on that later as I try it on. All right, so taking a look closely at this dial we have what is known as a Hobnail Dial, sort of the literal inverse of what you would find from an Audemar Piguet Grand Tapisserie Dial, where you have the raised squares with the tiny channels running left and right; up and down. This one is the complete inverse in which you take those squares and you push them inward. Then you have this nice lattice look going up and down; left to right, right. Very interesting, very distinct look. Gives it a very nice texture. Sort of diffuses the light even further a little bit more interestingly than say the matte black texture that you see on the case; very interesting there. You have these applied index numerals with the Arabic 12, six, three, and nine with index markers for the rest of them made for extremely easy reading. Now there's no seconds hand, no second track. It's just keeping track of the minutes, because most of us really tell time in terms of hours and minutes, not so much with hours, minutes, and seconds. So you get rid of all the things that are basically not really necessary, and you just show what you really need: The hour in the minutes, that's all you really need. Now taking a look at the functions here, it's rather basic. At the first position, you can simply wind the watch by unscrewing the crown. And has this very distinct winding sound to it. Right? And it feels very satisfying to wind up because it feels like you're actually winding a complex machine inside here, and complex it certainly is. So all of that simply easy at the first position. Second position, very easy to pull the crown out. I must say it's probably the easiest crown to pull out. Ignoring pilot watches for a second, this is probably the best that I've ever held. Okay, very easy to move that minute hand. Again, you don't need to synchronize it with your seconds hand, so you can just simply place it wherever you really need. Just if you want precision, you may want to look elsewhere. But for some, for a watch like this, you can just get close enough and just simply press the crown back in to start up that time once more, all right. Not that it really matters to have any hacking function or non-hacking function. Again, you're just setting the time: you flip and forget, you set and forget. Nice and easy there. All right, so what allows all of this to work rather simple, it is the powderied caliber OpX. Well, I hard to say simple, because it is still rather complex. It is based on the ETA 6597-1 base. It is a completely manual movement. So there's no internal rotor to basically wind the watch as you wear it on your wrist. It has a diameter of 36.6 millimeters, 17 jewels total, so rather small, but still very complex. 56 hour power reserve and beating on a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour or otherwise three Hertz. Again, you're not going for utmost and complete accuracy. If you want something like that, get a chronograph, maybe get a Luminor instead. But again, this one, it tells the time, it does its job well and it's very simple in its overall presentation. With the 56 hour power reserve, that's about two-and-a-half days, close to two-and-a-half days or more like, eh, yeah, two-and-a-quarter-days, rather two-and-a-thirds-of-a-day. Whatever, if I have my math wrong you know we're in trouble, but I believe it's two-and-one-third-of-a-day. You can just set this down on a Friday evening, you'll may have to pick it back up on a Monday morning and wind the watch. Not that that's an issue, because having that manual, fully manual winding apparatus, gives you that sense of connection with your watch. You get more physical attachment to your watch because you're paying good money for something like this and good function, good looks, is what you get in return. And also that little added benefit of being physically connected to your watch every few days. All right now, again looking at how all of this works together in terms of the case and the framing here, we have this leather bracelet. Leather, a sort of satin type of finish on the top with a full leather interior. Nice scaled texture there, right, leading down to this Panerai buckle. Also made of ceramic, much like that of the case wall. Literally the case is made of ceramic and so is this belt and buckle here at the very end. Very easy to size because you do have these loops for easy setting. You also have a couple minor loops so if you have a smaller wrist, anything smaller than what is absolutely required, you can stick the excess strap into these loops. And while I'm here, we can actually demonstrate that as well. Taking a look at it on the wrist here, I measured about seven inches, or 18 centimeters in circumference, all right. Rather simple there, at least for me. If you have smaller wrist than I do you're probably gonna have a lot more space underneath this cushion. But for me, if I'm sizing this very snug to my wrist on the second loop here, right, plenty of minder loop to go for that. I do get a really good sense of framing between the top and bottom lugs. Well actually let me point out that this does not actually have lugs, but it has these little wires that go out. Very, very durable wires, indeed, that hold onto the strap so that you don't have any excess lug width here, which actually makes this watch wear much smaller than it actually seems. Even though it is a 45 millimeter diameter case, it wears, for lack of a better term, more like a 41. And that's due to the fact that there aren't actual lugs here, but just little metallic loops that hold onto the straps here. Very easy, very easy to function, and it just feels darn good. All right, with the overall ceramic construction here, incredibly light. Something, I wouldn't expect anything less for a Royal Italian Navy because they would need that added benefit of having a much lighter time keeper there on the wrist. Very good and overall, extremely comfortable. Also on the outside, that satin finishing makes it a very nice touch. So if anyone were to feel that, oh, it's so soft. Extremely soft and underneath the nice leather texture has a very, very soft feel as well. And the added benefit of having this leather texture does allow you to have that patina feel. So if you have this watch for a long time, you wear it every day, you take it everywhere with you, you're gonna have the natural wear of the leather that will be specific to you and your specific activities entirely, all right. So no two straps will ever be the same after a few years. But that being said, what else is there to say about this watch? It's extremely easy to read. That's what Panerai is known for: Very easy to read dials, very easy to read watches, with all the information that you'll ever need. For someone like this, this is on the level of say a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, or an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, or anything more of a standard watch face it. It doesn't give you the date, it doesn't give you anything extra. No additional complications like a Flying Turbillion a Calendar. But if you just need to know the time of the day, very easy to work with here. No need to have that second hand distracting you. You just see where the minute hand is, where the hour hand is, easy to read with those Arabic numerals 12, three, six and nine. You have your Cardinal Directions with all those index hour marks. And even in the dark, incredibly easy to read as well. Panerai also known for, again, their readability. Extremely easy to read. This is actually clipping my highlights on my monitor here. So you'll know this is incredibly easy to read in any lighting situation, right. Both the hour and minute hands fully lumed all the way down to the center there. And what is there to not like about this? Because all of this working together, it makes it for an extremely comfortable, extremely easy to wear, extremely easy to read, extremely easy to function watch here. Very easy, just overall, extremely simple but with plenty of complexity behind it. All right, so let us know down in the comments below, what do you think about this watch? Let us know and be sure to hit that Like button and subscribe if you haven't already. And hit that bell notification so you're gonna be notified when we go Live with another video like this one. And as always, if you'd like to purchase this watch, or any other watch from us at: jaztime.com Links in the description below. Just hit that link down in the description below. Secure your version, your copy of this watch. We do have this one on sale, this exact copy on sale. So visit our website: Jaztime.com Links in the description below and we'll see you in the next one. Take care.