At some point, someone at Panerai looked at one of the brand’s signature 44mm cushion cases and decided it needed to lose weight — a lot of it.
The result is the new Luminor Marina PAM01707, built entirely from Carbotech, Panerai’s proprietary carbon composite made by pressing thin layers of carbon fiber together with PEEK, a high-performance polymer.
The material comes in at 64% lighter than titanium and 80% lighter than steel, and the finished watch weighs in around 100 grams — light for a 44mm case that’s still 14.5mm thick. For reference, that’s still more than double the weight of a basic Timex Weekender, but for an all-metal 44mm dive watch, which would normally run 150 grams or more in steel, landing at 100 grams is a real flex.
Everything else stays true to the Luminor Marina pattern: the crown-protecting bridge, the sandwich dial construction, and a no-date layout.
Beige Super-LumiNova on the numerals and hour markers glows green in the dark and gives the dial a vintage, tropical-lume look without actually aging for decades to get there.
Power comes from Panerai’s P.9010 automatic movement, a 3-day power reserve caliber running at 28,800 vibrations per hour, and the watch ships with both a brown calf leather strap and an additional black rubber strap for swapping between dressed-up and dive-ready.
Carbotech is king
Because each block of Carbotech cuts differently, every case comes out with its own marbled, matte-black pattern, so no two watches look quite alike.
Panerai’s Neuchâtel manufacture has been leaning on Carbotech since 2015, when it first showed up on a Submersible reference, and it’s since become one of the more reliable ways the brand differentiates itself from every other big Swiss dive watch maker.
It’s also a good reminder that “dive watch” doesn’t have to mean “heavy watch.” If you’re the type who avoids a serious tool piece because it feels like wearing a paperweight, the best dive watches worth owning right now increasingly prove that ISO-rated durability and a comfortable daily wear no longer have to be a trade-off. Panerai just made that case pretty convincingly.
Where to buy it
The Luminor Marina PAM01707 is available now directly through Panerai for $15,600. It’s a non-limited release, so there’s no scarcity clock here, but Panerai boutiques are the only place to see that marbled Carbotech finish in person before you buy.
