In recent years, Panerai has become one of the industry leaders when it comes to creating watches from modern materials – fusing its time-honoured dive watch designs with thoroughly contemporary cases, demonstrating how versatile the Radiomir and Luminor can be.

This episode of About Time brings us an up-close look at two recent watches from Panerai’s Laboratorio di Idee – the Luminor Marina Carbotech (PAM01661) and Luminor Marina TuttoGrigio (PAM01662). We explain why Carbotech, and the 3D-printed titanium of the TuttoGrigio, are such attractive materials for watchmaking, in every possible sense.

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