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Inspired by their earliest and arguably most important timepiece, the Radiomir Origine casts a playful eye to the past with subtle yet stylish dégradé dials. Much like the world which surrounded it, the watch industry was a very different place in 1936 when the Panerai Radiomir was first shipped. Though certainly aspirational, being made to a high standard of accuracy and built for an intended purpose previously requested by none other than the Italian Navy, these watches were not the luxury status symbols which they undeniably are today. They were tools.

Tools indeed, intended of course for the

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