Strength And Character

Panerai surges ahead with the most quietly innovative materials in the watchmaking business.

- Celine Yap

A master of stealth and a pioneer in military instruments, Panerai is always exploring new frontiers in watchmaking. The results of its creative research and risktaking, however, are much less obvious. But look a little harder at what the Italian manufacture has brought forth and the truth naturally reveals itself.

BMG-Tech

BMG-Tech – BMG stands for bulk metallic glass – is similar in appearance to titanium, but comes in a slightly darker shade of grey. Material science engineers will definitely have heard of it, but here’s the first instance of it being used as a case for a watch.

Panerai explains the manufacturing process as “a high-pressure injection process at a high temperature, followed by a cooling process lasting for only a few seconds, so that the atoms do not have enough time to become arranged in an ordered, regular structure”.