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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020.
Watch companies especially those with spiritual ties to the ocean have been quick to embrace initiatives to ally with adventurers and naturalists promoting action on climate change and w0rking to protect and preserve ocean habitats. It’s a facet of the watch industry that has only gathered pace in the past decade. A natural, market-friendly offshoot and a cool way for the market to join in is making watch straps made from recycled ocean plastic. But very few brands have taken the recycling idea and applied it to the watches themselves. Panerai, however, shows what can happen when a brand decides to fully explore the possibilities of pushing the technical limits of recycling to a mind-bending degree.