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Well, significant birthday coming up and I am torn....

Do I buy myself a Panerai 372 or a Rolex Deepsea Sea Dweller?

Cost is about the same and availability not an issue....

I already have 2 Breitling Headwinds (1 x black dial 1 x champagne dial), a Chronomat and a Panerai 359.

Tried them both on, they're both singing to me but I gotta go with just one and it could well be the last watch I buy - at least for a good while.

What do you think?

Thanks!

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Breitling Chronomat - Black Dial / SS & 18k Case on Black Calf & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Black Dial / SS Case on DPII & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Gold Dial / SS & 18k Case on Brown Calf & Deployant
Panerai 359 on JV

Sea Dweller...such an awesome watch!

Too big for me but Sea Dweller. Adds variety to you collection.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

Deepsea for me. The plexiglass on the 372 is enough to discount that immediately. Plus I find the time-only 47mm Pannies too plain.

If you were looking at a 270 or something then I'd answer differently, but the 372 is far from my favourite Panerai.

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Driver8

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Can I vote for neither?

As you have a PAM already, I'd go for something else. But as your "something else" in this instance is a Rolex (and I hate Rolex), I don't like that option either.

What about a Breguet Type XXI or a JLC Master Compressor Navy SEALs?

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Chronomat 01- Sierra Silver/Steel
Navitimer 01- Limited Edition #1337/2000

Rolex, since you already have a PAM.

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-RJ

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"I don't got the bright watch I got the right watch" -Jay Z

With a Rolex on my wrist I vote Panerai. Why? Because the sea Dweller at least in its most recent incarnation carries as much Rolex DNA as an Opel Astra. The Panerai on the other hand is the purest expression of its identity. It has more pedigree than a cocker spaniel an who doesn't love those?

That is, if you can live with the size. Judging by your having chosen the smaller 359 prior to this... I suspect you might not be willing to do so in the long run?

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Cheers from Switzerland,

Fred

I HATE cocker spaniels I was bitten by one as a kid , I won't go near them.... I would probably vote for the Rolex for a change of pace in your collection..

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sco
Breitling Chrono Superocean
Omega Aqua Terra 8500
Rolex Submariner Date Ceramic

Me too. Bitten by and disliking cocker spaniels I mean. Very big biters, cockers:

http://indigorescue.org/?page_id=83

Um, ok, back on thread, the Panerai, for the reasons Nav01L gives (despite the spaniel bit ).

Thanks for you opinions!

Completely agree - cocker spaniels are thugs!

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Breitling Chronomat - Black Dial / SS & 18k Case on Black Calf & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Black Dial / SS Case on DPII & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Gold Dial / SS & 18k Case on Brown Calf & Deployant
Panerai 359 on JV

DSSD went up by £980 in June! 14% increase sounds a bit steep to me but the thing that bugs me most is me not getting my thumb out of my @rse and getting one 6 weeks ago!

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Breitling Chronomat - Black Dial / SS & 18k Case on Black Calf & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Black Dial / SS Case on DPII & Deployant
Breitling Headwind - Gold Dial / SS & 18k Case on Brown Calf & Deployant
Panerai 359 on JV

Just one more reason to love Rolex... Not to get the Cocker thing back on track, but we don't stop feeding them and they won't stop biting us in the part of our anatomy some may or may not have fingers in.

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Cheers from Switzerland,

Fred

DSSD by a wide margin.

One plus with Rolex though is that it seems if you hold it long enough, it will be worth as much as you paid or more on the used market if you ever sell it...it is amazing what I see late 1980s Sea Dwellers sell for...