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# Panerai Marks 100 Years Florence Boutique With Luminor Firenze 8 Giorni Limited Editions
- URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/panerai-marks-100-years-florence-boutique-with-luminor-firenze-8-giorni-limited-editions/
- Published: 2026-09-21T13:23:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T13:23:01.000Z
- Author: Vuk Radic
- Tags: News

The very cool thing about Italy is that pretty much everything you see, touch or visit is pretty old. While the newsletter was down, I had to take some time off, so we did a family holiday to Tuscany, driving between the small towns and eating a lot. We did a day in Florence, as well, which is where I forced my entire family to go to Piazza San Giovanni, ignore the Duomo for a bit, and go check out the Panerai store. As it happened, this store is celebrating its 100th anniversary, having opened in 1926 as Orologeria Svizzera, and for decades it was where the Panerai family sold, assembled and repaired watches. It reopened to the public in 2001 after a renovation, and Panerai is marking its centenary with two Luminor Firenze 8 Giorni references based on a rare 1960s prototype, the Ref. 6152/1\. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Panerai-Firenze-8-Giorni-2.jpg)

The prototype measured 47mm, and Panerai could have kept it at that size, but they had mercy on our wrists, cutting the size down to 44mm. This being Panerai, we don't get the exact thickness or lug-to-lug, but Luminors wear a bit smaller thanks to the cushion shape and short lugs. On the side is the iconic brushed crown-protecting bridge. The PAM01794 is made out of polished steel with a closed, brushed caseback engraved with an illustration of the Florence boutique and 300 meters of water resistance. The PAM01734 uses Platinumtech, Panerai's hardened alloy of 95% platinum, with an open sapphire caseback, and water resistance drops to 100 meters. Both have a slightly domed sapphire crystal meant to recall the Perspex on 1960s Luminors.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Panerai-Firenze-8-Giorni-3.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Panerai-Firenze-8-Giorni-4.jpg)

Both variants use circular-brushed sandwich dials with cut-out numerals at the cardinals and cut-out indices elsewhere, filled with green Super-LumiNova, and "Panerai Firenze" sits below 12 just as it did on the prototype. The PAM01794 pairs a black dial with blue-finished pencil hands, while the PAM01734 goes green with gold-colored hands. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Panerai-Firenze-8-Giorni-5.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/Panerai-Firenze-8-Giorni-6.jpg)

Inside is the in-house Panerai calibre P.5000, hand-wound with two barrels and a 192-hour power reserve (that's the 8 Days or 8 Giorni in the name), beating at 3Hz, with a Glucydur balance and Incabloc shock protection. Both watches come on Tuscan calfskin hot-stamped with the Florentine lily: black leather with a white gold trapezoidal buckle and a spare green rubber strap for the PAM01734, dark-brown leather with a brushed steel buckle and a spare black rubber strap for the PAM01794\. 

The Panerai Luminor Firenze 8 Giorni PAM01794 is limited to 1,000 pieces, priced at €10,700\. The PAM01734 is limited to 100 pieces at €55,000\. See more on the Panerai website [here](https://www.panerai.com/hr/en/collections/watch-collection/luminor/pam01734-luminor-firenze-8-giorni.html?ref=itsabouttime.email) and [here](https://www.panerai.com/hr/en/collections/watch-collection/luminor/pam01794-luminor-firenze-8-giorni.html?ref=itsabouttime.email).