Officine Panerai | Brabus

Last year, Panerai and Brabus, a world-renowned luxury mobility brand out of the heart of Germany’s Ruhr region, forged a partnership rooted in their shared ambition to redefine the limits of technology, style and performance in their respective spheres. United by their commitment to crafting instruments for dynamic, iconoclastic explorers and a profound reverence for the sea, the two brands created a series of watches designed to merge the best of each – forming a specific identity of their own. Devised from the outset to evolve in response to new offerings from the Panerai and Brabus portfolios, the collaboration’s latest watch is a companion to a new entry in the Brabus Marine Shadow series of luxury powerboats, characterised by a stealth green hue.

Available in a 200-piece limited edition, the Submersible S Brabus Verde Militare Edition features a 47mm case composed of Carbotech, a composite material first used in watchmaking by Panerai.

This new timepiece is powered by a movement established on the foundation of the P.4000 caliber, the first automatic movement with an off-centre micro-rotor developed and by the Panerai Manufacture at Neuchâtel. Its descendent, Caliber P. 4001/S, is an automatic, skeletonized movement featuring a three-day power reserve whose indicator appears on the reverse of the case. Furthermore, cutting-edge technology permits utmost visibility of the skeletonized movement, unobstructed by the date disc, which is discernible only through the window at 3 o’clock, thanks to the patented polarized date display.

The  watch features a unidirectional rotating bezel to calculate immersion time and GMT function, while the one-piece, off-centre oscillating weight permits bi-directional winding. With its skeletonised structure – the bridges and plates have been winnowed to their barest elements to expose the workings of the movement – the watch is notably lightweight. In addition, the stop balance wheel and seconds reset devices enable the time to synchronize with a reference time signal.

Water-resistant to 300 meters, the Panerai Submersible S Brabus Verde Militare Edition features two straps, a black bi-material version composed of calf leather melded with a rubber base and a second in military green rubber. Also included is a screwdriver for removing the buckle.