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>Panerai's external and movement finishing (but especially external) are significantly worse for the price than most of its competitors.
You’re welcome to your opinion, but I have a titanium Luminor Marina circa 2008 that is not noticeably better or worse finished than a modern Speedmaster Professional or Datejust. It has a worse finish compared to an LC Tank which cost ~3x what it did.
> Having other Richemont Group subsidiaries design and manufacture high end movements using Panerai's brand name does not do anything for the vast majority of its range being pleb catchers.
This is a frankly bewildering argument. Panerai has a patent on their tourbillon system and they have a manufacturing facility in Switzerland, opened when they moved their movement production in-house. They are one of the few brands pushing the envelope through materials science with carbon composites, 3D printing, and other weirder things. There is no, I repeat NO phantom brand in the conglomerate passing these material research secrets down to Panerai.

If you really want to make the argument that HH is irrelevant to the rest of the brand, that’s fine but it’s a far cry from your previous position that they are all marketing and no substance.