I Purchased the Pam 321. I've had it for only a couple of months. It's a great watch but I keep looking up the 270. The 270 has everything but the second reset and it's not a 300mm like the 321. Should I sell the 321 now and upgrade to the 270? or should I keep the 321 and put the price difference towards the 368??

That said 312's seem to be self destructing now too with screws and plates coming loose inside the case. That's pretty unimpressive for Panerai, and the prices we all pay for these items means we should expect and get more than we sometimes do.

anything hand made will have issues, heck my 328 was back to the spa twice, but it had a complete service and is running great, also looks good as new.

the csr's @ pasc were awesome and treated me great, keeping me informaed every step of the way. i wasn't happy about what happened but everything was covered under warranty and the watch was back to me in 3 weeks, not bad at all.

But beyond a certain price point, say $5000/£3250 they should be very isolated incidents which they clearly aren't. Add the growing number of P9000 movement issues to the very well known and discussed P2002 problems and there are way too many imo. Sad but true.

i think we hear more about them because of the internet....sh!t happens with every major watch maker. pasc has been great to me so even though i wasn't happy with what happened i was treated well and i guess in the end that's all that counts.

Did not hear about the problems with the 312 baz - do you have links to some discussions or point me in the right direction?

It seems you are a more forgiving and generous person than me. I abandoned owing a 233 as the troubles i had with two different examples were laughable though not funny, even the factory couldn't get one of them to run remotely properly.

I agree that dealing with a problem well is to some extent reassuring. However my point is, for the price point we’re all buying into here, these problems should be rarer than they are.

I’m grateful for internet exposure personally, it gives us all more ammunition to use when problems do arise. I agree too that other brands have their problems but that is still no excuse for poor workmanship in a premium, luxury price tagged product. Much as I like the Panerai brand I do wonder whether the prolific releases of new movements hasn’t meant they hit production too soon in some cases and needed better testing and trialling which clearly the early models of 233 did.