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Panerai Pushes Material Science With Its New Submersible Navy SEALs Afniotech Experience PAM01089 In A Hafnium Case

Fratello Watches - The Magazine Dedicated To Luxury Watches·Ben Hodges·30 days ago
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Limited to 35 pieces, each watch includes a Navy SEALs training experience in March 2027 Panerai excels at advancing watchmaking through bold material innovation. Its latest breakthrough introduces the world’s first watch case machined from hafnium. The metal appears here in a 47mm Submersible case. Hafnium ranks among the rarest industrial metals on Earth. Global output measures only a few dozen tons annually. The element exists solely within zirconium ores and is notoriously difficult to separate. Panerai names its proprietary alloy Afniotech ( afnio means “hafnium” in Italian), with hafnium comprising 95% of the case. Extraction alone poses a challenge for modern metallurgy due to its chemical composition, which is similar to that of zirconium. Machining hafnium into a finely finished Swiss case demands even greater precision. That complexity limits production to just 35 examples. Each watch also includes a three‑day Navy SEALs training experience in Florida.…

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