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Originally Posted by kaiserphoenix
I also loved panerai but for me what annoyed me was the consistent price increase coupled with cost cutting. I don't mind if the price goes up and quality goes up or at least remains stable. But with Panerai its one of the few brands that actively cut corners including petty things like removing hacking seconds in their movments or for some reason NOT using their inhouse movements anymore and using sister movements like P900. Panerai was interesting back in 2010~ because they actually had unique designs but also very cool movements like the P2003 etc. Now they all just use more generic valfluerirer movements...even though they have their own stuff. They stopped doing see through backs and now focus on 40mm. I hope they get back to their ways.
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Great points.
I’ll add to that list of questionable moves (for Panerai) press-on case backs and spring bars.