Ultra Rare Panerai Prototype Reference 6152/1

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Ultra Rare Panerai Prototype

Reference 6152/1

The photos below show one of the rarest Luminor Panerai watches ever made. This is a standard vintage Luminor Panerai Reference 6152/1 made in 1952, which was made with a unique prototype dial. The dial has complete second markers that run around the entire dial. Of course, the detail that makes this watch look so unusual, are all of the small circular second marker, which have never appeared on a base Panerai dial. In other words, just to be crystal clear, this vintage model typically had an identical dial, without the small round minute markers between the 12, 3, 6, 9, and baton 5 minute baton markers.

This first photo was taken by Luciano Cipullo, and it appears in his amazing Panerai book.

To the best of my knowledge this is a unique piece, which is still owned today by the Panerai family. It never ceases to amaze me, how much Panerai experimented with design, and it is equally amazing how many ultra-rare examples of vintage Panerai watches have been documented. I believe this is something Panerai and Rolex have in common, is that they both experimented like crazy, and often times the watches that never made it into production are even more fascinating than the ones that were produced.

The photo below shows the lume pattern of this unique Luminor Panerai that was made in the early 1950s, and as we see, its Lume is still glowing strong!