Officine Panerai calls the lovely Italian city of Florence its home, as did perhaps the most famous scientist and stargazer in history, Galileo Galilei.
The systems and ideas Galileo put into motion became the foundation for modern science, navigation and even time-keeping.
Panerai chose to honour this favoured son of Florence with the creation of three instruments that display the high levels of excellence they are able to attain.
The most enchanting of these needs to sit on a pedestal, as it is a Jupiterium that shows the universe as it was imagined during Galileo's time, with the Earth as its centre. The one you can actually wear on your wrist gives you a vision of the heavens as well.
The Panerai Luminor 1950 Equation of Time Tourbillon Titanio - 50mm L'Astronomo (PAM00365) has a relatively clean face that hides the breadth and depth of its complication, though at 50mm it should have all the space it needs.
The most technically sophisticated wristwatch produced by Officine Panerai, it presents a tourbillion with equation of time, indication of sunrise and sunset times for the city chosen by the buyer and the depiction of the night sky of that city as well.
