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Panerai 00210

THERE’S SOMETHING refreshing about the way Panerai has (mostly) stuck to its knitting. The firm (at least, various incarnations of it) has been making oversized waterproof watches for divers since the 1930s. Over the years case diameters have expanded and contracted while they’ve determinedly kept on making watches you can see from space.

The Florence-based firm quickly realised that

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