Visiting The Panera Boutique In Beverly Hills

Visiting The Panerai Boutique In

Beverly Hills 

Recently I spent some time in the Beverly Hills Panerai Boutique, and I had so much fun, and learned so much! I noticed they redecorated the Beverly Hills Panerai store since the last time I visited, over a year ago, and it looks great!

As you can see in the photo below, they now have a giant photo of a vintage Reference 6152, or Reference 6154, which has lume that is really dark and looks like fossilized tree sap.  I love that watch and really hope they come out with a heritage version of it sometime soon.

If you are not familiar with the Beverly Hills Panerai Boutique, I will share some insight and history with you. The Beverly Hills Panerai Boutique was the very first Panerai Boutique, and when it first opened, nine years ago in 2005, Panerai had no idea how it would do? It was really kind of an experiment, which ended-up being extremely successful! Nine short years later, Panerai now has 65 international boutiques, which are extremely successful. 

The staff at the Beverly Hills boutique are superb, and extremely knowledgable. They are also really nice, and when I spent time in the store, I noticed it almost had a club-like environment. There were loyal customers just hanging out in the store chatting with each other. That is kind of the thing about Panerai; If you meet somebody wearing a Panerai, chances are you could end up having a friend for life. There is just something very cool about the mentality of people that wear Panerai that is outstanding.

One of the things I got to see in the Panerai store was the all-new Panerai desk/wall clocks, and they were beautiful. I took some photos of the new Panerai wall clock and the Hygrometer next to my PAM372 to offer a sense of scale, since the Panerai wall clock looked so much larger in person than in the press photos I recently published.

I forgot to take a photo of the back of the wall clock, but I noticed it has 3 keyhole slots for wall-mounting, so you can keep it perfectly balanced on the wall.

Panerai Introduces Barometer, Hydrometer, Thermomoter, and Wall Clock

...Officine Panerai Introduction...

Panerai Introduces

Barometer, Hydrometer, Thermomoter, & Wall Clock

When I was a child, my grandparents had an unusual looking clock that looked like it had four clocks in one. I asked my grandmother what is was, and she said it had a time clock, barometer and thermometer. and that is was from a boat. Today Officine Panerai launched a line of limited edition  navigation instruments which were sponsored by Eilean, which is Panerai's vintage sailboat that was originally built in 1936.

The Panerai wall clock is battery powered, which makes sense.

The Photo below is of the Eilean which is Panerai's Boat that was made in 1938, and served as the inspiration for the new Panerai Clock show above.

Below is the official Officine Panerai press release:

OFFICINE PANERAI INTRODUCES

BAROMETER, HYGROMETER, THERMOMETER AND WALL CLOCK

Inspired by the elegant lines of Eilean, the new Panerai navigation instruments evoke the world of classic yachts.  It is Eilean, the Bermudan ketch of 1936 which represents Officine Panerai in the world of classic yachting, that has been the source of inspiration for the new navigation instruments created in limited editions and available exclusively in Panerai boutiques: the Barometer, Hygrometer, Thermometer and Wall Clock.

Built in the very same year that the first prototype of the Panerai watch was supplied to the commandos of the Italian Navy, Eilean is one of the last designs of an all-time genius of naval architecture, William Fife III; he designed and built many of the finest classic yachts that are still sailing. Acquired by Officine Panerai in 2007 and returned since then to its magnificent original state by a lengthy and meticulous restoration, Eilean takes part each year in the gatherings of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, the main international circuit of regattas for classic yachts.

With its elegant, flowing lines, Eilean is a perfect example of authenticity, beauty and love of the sea. Since its return to the water after being restored, Eilean has been equipped with a range of instruments specially created by Officine Panerai, and it is these which have been the inspiration for all the new models.

Like the originals in Eilean, the new Barometer, Hygrometer, Thermometer and Wall Clock are made of AISI 316L stainless steel, an alloy with a low carbon content valued for its great corrosion resistance, and they are 14 cm wide and 14 cm deep. They all have black dials of great simplicity and instant legibility, carrying the indications for displaying atmospheric pressure, the relative humidity of the air, the temperature and the time. These measurements were once indispensable for every sailor and still today, in an era dominated by digital information, they are an invaluable resource for those who still seek in sailing the classic flavour of an era now passed.

WALL CLOCK

In the past, time measurement was extremely important for sailors, because it provided one of the pieces of information used in calculating longitude, thus determining the ship’s position and course. The need for a reliable timepiece on board led to the development of ever more accurate marine chronometers which could operate perfectly in adverse environmental conditions. Officine Panerai’s new Wall Clock has been created in a period when this need no longer exists, but it is nonetheless a useful tool to have, with a distinctive dial recalling that of the wristwatches made by Panerai.

BAROMETER

The barometer, the instrument designed by the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli in 1643, provides accurate details of atmospheric

pressure. This information is used for weather forecasts, high atmospheric pressure indicating good weather while low pressure warns that bad weather is likely. The Panerai Barometer contains a metal box, called a barometric capsule, which is compressed to a varying degree by atmospheric pressure. This capsule expands or contracts as the pressure of the atmosphere varies and its movements are transmitted to an indicator hand.

HYGROMETER

For more than two centuries the hygrometer has been used to measure the humidity in the air and in navigation its purpose is to assess the

likelihood of rain and fog. Historically, its use was completely different: the first hygrometers were actually employed in the 14th century to resolve disputes between buyers and sellers of wool, the weight of which, and thus the price, changes with varying humidity, increasing on damp days and becoming less on dry ones.

THERMOMETER

The thermometer is an instrument for measuring temperature. The first example to use the temperature parameters which are standard today was devised by Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer who in 1742 subdivided the scale of a mercury thermometer into one hundred parts from the freezing point of water to its boiling point. The Panerai thermometer operates by means of two metal strips with different coefficients of expansion bonded together: variations of temperature cause this bimetallic strip to bend. The bimetallic strip is formed into a spiral and a hand is fixed to one end of it, so that it rotates to indicate the temperature as it changes.