I've just heard the horror stories; you don't always hear about the good stuff haha. I guess that goes with everything in life.

 

Horror stories?

 

The ceramic chipping.

 

Have heard that in some instances, but very rare. I've had the 292 and 339 for a while.. both perfect.. no worries whatsoever.

 

Both member swordsman and member graytt have posted pictures of their ceramic chipping off.

 

Saw that. Panerai clearly needs to address these issues.

 

The issue is only with the coating process used for the 339 (https://teamspeed.com/forums/watch-f...l-no-more.html)

Their other pieces are fine... MikeS has a ceramic and no issues there (I believe)

 

My fault - I thought that composite case and ceramic were similar.

 

Have had big problems with my 292. It is now for the second time within a year back to the factory which is a process that takes many months and costs a lot. Both times I was to blame for - dropped the watch on the floor - but honestly any other piece would have survived this easily. Both times most of the black bezel came off and i am now almost convinced that the panerai PVD process on this particular watch is faulty. I am now refusing to pay again more than 1k to repair this for the 2nd time - the watch is still under warranty, I am waiting for an answer from the factory.

I still love the watch and panerai in general and I wished this did not happen or at least I hope it will not happen again.


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Some pictures of my troubled watch...





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