Rubber B Offers Wonderful Panerai Rubber Straps

Panerai Luminor – Rubber Straps

Panerai maintains a healthy balance of style and utility. The Panerai Luminor case is an original and innovative creation, which has been it’s moniker for recognition from afar, no matter which rubber strap it bears. The existing Panerai rubber strap market is extremely vast, and mundane choices are plenty. However, innovation deserves a constant influx of new technology bearing passionate attention to detail. Panerai deserves a high tech, luxury rubber strap which has been tested and proven by leaders in the Swiss watch industry, to be the ultimate in quality, precision, and profound excellence: a vulcanized Panerai rubber strap from Rubber B.

But first let’s touch ground with some historical facts about Panerai Luminor. Back in 1993, a key year in the history of Panerai and its most iconic watch, the Luminor, was the year, for the first time, the brand presented the Luminor and its variation Luminor Marina to the public. Directly inspired by a model of the past, the Luminor model quickly achieved an exceptional worldwide success. But let’s step back to the origin of the firm and the main events that brought to the creation of this iconic watch. Before then, Panerai watches had been available only to military forces. At the beginning of the 20th century, Panerai became an official supplier to the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina in Italian) supplying high precision instruments.

In 1935 the Royal Italian Navy approached Panerai and other watch manufacturers with the request of designing a watch resistant to extreme conditions while at the same time keeping exact time for the frogman commandos of the First Submarine Group Command and offering excellent readability even under water. The prototype submitted by Panerai in 1936 was called Radiomir, from the name of the luminescent substance used for hands and indices, and passed all tests successfully.

It was the Panerai Radiomir — the watch that started the whole myth around the Italian watch brand. First exclusively made for Italian military divers, then a publicly available shelf warmer, and finally a global star after the brand had its famous breakthrough. In fact, Radiomirs were not only deployed by the Italian Navy, but also by German Military Divers. They were only produced in small numbers and are super rare today, but you can still find them: Radiomars without the Panerai-branding that and were dubbed as “Kampfschwimmer” and worn by German military divers during WW II, interesting fact right?

Rubber B has an extensive number of bands to support 40mm, 42mm, 44mm and 47mm Panerai timepieces. All Rubber B bands are designed and produced in Switzerland and manufactured with 100% vulcanized rubber. There is a diversity of colors to choose from, as well as designs created with the “Blocked Integration” engineering for a flawless, motionless flush mount to the Panerai case.

Rubber B also offers it’s exclusive SwimSkin® Rubber Cuff Series, a High-Tech Vulcanized Rubber Combat Strap exclusively for Panerai 47mm. This high-tech watch band is made of “SwimSkin®”, Rubber B’s exclusive patented technology, created over a developmental period of many years for absolute perfection, requiring all-new innovative machinery and engineering techniques. Offered in a diversity of colors.
Although this strap looks and feels like moisture sensitive materials such as Kevlar®, it is actually 100% RUBBER, and therefore waterproof for all sports and aquatic activities. It is also Hand-Sewn with HYDROTURF® Marine Thread: Maximum resistance to UV-rays, atmospheric conditions, & chemicals.

Rubber B also offers straps for Panerai 40mm and 42mm – SwimSkin “Alligator” (entirely 100% Vulcanized Rubber, engineered to fit Panerai 40mm and 42mm cases (22mm lug space) and their OEM 20mm tang buckles. It also features “SwimSkin”, Rubber B’s exclusively patented and innovative rubber technology. Although this strap looks and feels identical to alligator hide, it is actually 100% RUBBER, and therefore waterproof for all aquatic activities. Imagine enjoying a day by the beach with your alligator strap on, worries free of the sun and salt water. Offered in Jet Black and Espresso Brown.

In addition Rubber B’ offers its unique “SwimSkin®” Ballistic which also looks and feels identical to natural moisture-sensitive materials such as Alligator hide or Kevlar® fabric, yet it is 100% rubber. Just as shown below, also offered in a diversity of colors.