Breathe out.
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumenery3–5 seconds. Don’t tense up, stay relaxed. Open your lips slightly to exhale slowly.
Keep going! Breathe out twice as long as you breathe in. Repeat these steps until you are ready to take your final breath. Create more space by lifting your head and shoulders.
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumenery
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumenery
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumenery
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumenery
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumeneryWhat would I give to be able to do that? To experience just once what Guillaume Néry experienced in his video One Breath Around The World. Sure, the scenes are edited. Of course, even he can’t hold his breath for the 12:42 minutes of the video. He also can’t swim around the world in a single breath. Nevertheless, the performance of this top athlete is literally breathtaking.
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https://www.youtube.com/@guillaumeneryMultiple world champion in free diving and constant weight apnea diving. This means diving without a sled or balloon, using only fins and his own strength. Néry broke several world records and at his peak was able to hold his breath for over 7 minutes.
His official personal depth record was 126 meters. But the unofficial record was much deeper. During a preliminary competition for the 2015 AIDA World Deep Diving Championships in Limasoll, Cyprus, the judges made a serious mistake.
By lowering the guide line too quickly and incorrectly marking the end of it, Guillaume Néry dived to a depth of 139 meters instead of the 129 meters he would have needed to set a new world record. This may not sound like much, but in this performance range it is worlds apart.
During the ascent, Néry suffered a pulmonary barotrauma and had to be rescued by divers 15 meters below the surface. This invalidated the record dive, even though the depth gauge showed 139m. Due to this injury, Guillaume Néry had to withdraw from the world championship competition and shortly afterwards ended his active career as an athlete.
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capital.de & instagram.comSince retiring from active competition, Guillaume Néry has been teaching budding divers in his adopted home of French Polynesia. He is also committed to saving the oceans, making documentaries with his wife, Julie Gautier, and speaking at symposiums about his passion.
Since 2016, he has also been a brand ambassador for Panerai. Panerai created a special model of the Submerisble for him, you can see him wearing it in the photographs above. This is the watch I would like to present here.
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swisswatchgallery.com“Before this partnership, I worked for many years with another, less well-known watch brand. But I often thought that one day I would like to be associated with a manufacturer that understands me and my world and shares my values. I was introduced to Panerai by the extraordinary adventurer Mike Horn, who has been one of their ambassadors for many years and whom I admire very much. The history of the brand itself, from equipping Italian Navy divers to its efforts to protect the oceans, is also a wonderful fit. Not to mention the robust watches, of course.” Guillaume Néry, in an interview with capital.de
Introducing Guillaume’s Panerai
If you look at the dimensions of the PAM00982, its a deep sea monster.
47mm diameter with 19mm height. It also measures 56.7mm lug-to-lug. Made of bright and scratch-resistant grade 5 titanium, the watch weighs 173 grams on a rubber strap. This is only about as much as my Omega Speedmaster Mark II or my Tudor Black Bay Chrono. But both on steel bracelets.
It is a large and absolutely present watch, which is anything but reserved in combination with its color scheme. Like its little sister, the PAM00959, this Submersible features a blue ceramic inlay in the 60-click unidirectional rotating bezel and a gray dial inspired by shark skin.
The rough structure of the dial and the interplay of blue and gray in combination with the pure white lume of the hands and indexes is what I really liked about the smaller Submersible (PAM00959) and which made it by far my favorite watch to wear.
In contrast to its smaller counterpart, the Guillaume Néry has a much more martial appearance. With a height of almost 2 cm, it sits proudly on the wrist. By looking at the the profile is doesn’t look too comfortable to wear.
The screw-down pushers of the flyback chronograph, with their distinctive fluting, add to the look of a real tool.
The most typical Panerai feature can’t be missing: that distinctive crown guard.
When closed, this ensures that the crown is pressed firmly against the gasket, making the watch more water resistant. At least that was the idea when it was first developed by Guido Panerai in the early 1950s. Today’s production techniques would probably make it obsolete, but in the meantime this bar has become such an integral part of the brand’s DNA and makes Panerai watches so distinctive that Panerai would be well advised to stick with it forever.
The PAM00982 is a flyback chronograph with a central stop minute hand. The blue stop-seconds hand on the center axis conceals the silver stop-minute hand below.
When the lower pusher on the left side of the case is pressed, the blue second hand begins to move. After 60 seconds, the chronograph minute hand jumps to the first stop index.
After 60 minutes, the luminescent stopwatch hour hand at 3 o’clock is logically positioned on the first index. In total, time intervals of up to 12 hours can be stopped. This should be sufficient for most free diving dives…
However, if the lower pusher is pressed during the stop, the flyback function causes all the stop hands to jump back and continue running right away. The advantage of this complication, which is usually very expensive, is not entirely clear to me. Apparently it makes it easier to stop lap times. For an underwater watch, um… never mind.
Flyback chronograph caliber P.9100
Inside the Submersible is the COSC-certified Panerai manufacture caliber P.9100 with automatic winding, measuring 31.02 mm in diameter and 8.15 mm thick. It has two spring barrels which result in a power reserve of 72 hours.
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panerai.comIn addition to the chronograph function including flyback functionality, the movement has another nice gimmick in the form of the zero reset. It causes the small seconds dial at 9 o’clock to automatically jump to the zero position when the crown is pulled. This means that the time can always be set to the exact second. As you would expect from a COSC-certified movement, the rate is very good. The watch currently gains about 4 seconds per day.
Special caseback
Unfortunately, as with almost all Submersibles, the beautifully designed movement cannot be viewed through a glass back. Instead, an elaborately designed, screw-down titanium back is used.
In addition to Guillaume Néry’s signature, his silhouette and fin can also be seen on it, showing him on his record dive to a depth of 126 meters. This depth is also recorded as a reminiscence, as are a few nicely drawn fish that probably accompanied him at the time…
In addition to the Submersible lettering, there is also a reference to the material used and the consecutive limitation number of the special series, which is limited to a total of 800 pieces. The V stands for the production year 2019.
Quick-release strap system
On the underside of the horns are the strap release buttons. When these are pressed, the springbars can be easily pushed out to the side. An excellent way to quickly attach a new strap to the PAM.
My favorite way to wear the 982 is with the original rubber strap, which is extremely soft. The two halves of the Néry rubber strap are held together by Panerai’s titanium buckle.
The PAM00982 in different style variations
Changing straps is quick and easy. You’ll always want to match your watch to your outfit.
But in the end, I always come back to the rubber straps. I think such a technical watch needs a technical-looking bracelet. In my opinion, a leather strap doesn’t fit that well.
In the dark, neither the choice of strap nor the outfit is important. What counts is the legibility of the watch. To ensure this at depths of dozens of meters, Panerai uses Super-Luminova X1 for the hands and 5-minute indices, as well as for the pearl at 12 o’clock on the bezel.
Glow in the dark
As usual with Submersibles, the PAM00982’s glowing pearl and minute hand are blue, the rest green. This way, the minute hand and the bezel are always easy to see. I also like the luminescent hour markers.
Comparing the PAM00982 with the smaller PAM00959
Summary
What can I say? A little more of everything, right? A little bigger. A little more length. A little more height. A little more weight. A little more function. A little more money. A little more attention…
Just a little? No, not at all! The watch is too much of everything. Too big. Too high. Too heavy. Far too expensive. Way too flashy. Way too over the top, but unfortunately also just way too cool.
I just love it! Despite its size, it is surprisingly comfortable to wear. Yes, it’s big, but not top-heavy in the least. Sure, it stands out, but that’s the case with almost every Panerai.
A valued colleague recently asked if there was one watch in my collection that outshined all the others. Bam! This is the one.
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