One of the coolest Panerai watches to debut this year has to be the limited edition Luminor 1950 Pangaea Submersible Depth Gauge model. The combination of a mechanical movement with a high-tech electronic depth gauge makes this watch unique, and really underscores the heritage of Panerai as a maker of really serious dive instruments. You might say this is the ultimate modern Panerai dive watch.

As evidence of how uncompromising Panerai was in creating this timepiece, each electronic depth gauge is individually certified under the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and Accreditation (METAS). This costly, exacting step is a testament to the watch brand not wishing to cut any corners in the development of a diving tool which can be relied upon with absolute certainty. In addition to the device’s accurate tracking of depth (within a tolerance of 20cm) during a dive, two very neat aspects are its ability to check the maximum dive reached for up to 6 seconds (when the hand will then go back to monitoring the actual depth you are currently at), and a device which lets you know when the lithium battery has gotten low. It actually locks the depth gauge at this point, preventing you from having a failure during a dive!

These features ensure that the Panerai Luminor 1950 Pangaea Submersible Depth Gauge watch will be yet another red hot item for Paneristi. I know it won’t take long for the 600 pieces in the edition to be sold—if all have already been spoken for, it would not surprise me in the least.