For Sale is the very special Panerai Luminor Daylight Slytech Pre-Vendôme, reference 5218-207/a.

Created for Sylvester Stallone to go with his 1996 film Daylight, the 207/a is amongst the sought-after references of the Pre-Vendôme era. Panerai didn’t build new watches for it. Instead, Officine Panerai sent 105 unsold Luminor Logo 5218-201/a watches back to Guenat S.A. in Switzerland to be reworked into the Daylight, each with a white dial and “Slytech Panerai” at 6 o’clock.

The first watches were fitted with blue markers. Stallone didn’t take to them, so most were returned and given the black-numeral dial seen here. After four of the blue-dial watches went missing, Panerai decided to renumber the whole series. This example is individually numbered out of 200 on its caseback, but Panerai never fulfilled the 200 units for production. 

With a 44mm stainless steel case, this model features a white dial with black numerals and markers filled with a Tritium compound.

It’s powered by the ETA 6497, a manual-wind movement with small seconds and a power reserve of 46 hours. Many of these watches were reworked from the first 1993 batch of Logo models, so early movement types are typical for this reference.

The full contents of this are remarkable, presented in the original large Slytech edition burr wood box with its outer blue box. It comes with the stamped and dated libretto, the still-sealed Panerai book “I Mezzi d’Assalto della Xa Flottiglia MAS 1940-1945”, the torpedo, an OEM screwdriver and spare spring bars. It also has two OEM straps: the black leather fitted to the watch and a spare brown calf strap, both with buckles. 

It has been fully tested for its authenticity and comes with a full 24 month warranty. A video condition review is available upon request and is recommended to view prior to purchasing.