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Title
PANERAI : The PANERAI Book by Dino Zei
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In 1950 he entered the Naval Academy, In 1958, as a Naval Weapons Officer, he graduated in Industrial Engineering at the University of Pisa.
While he served in the Navy, he had numerous appointments on board and working establishments, study and experimenting organizations. His last assignment in the Navy began in 1968 and saw him fill the double position of Head of the Weapons and Explosives Section of the Centre of Studies of the Navy Commandos and Divers Headquarters “Teseo Tesei” and Head of the Ammunition and Missiles of the Standing Committee for the Experimentation on War Materials. In 1969 he also became Director of the Centre of Studies of the Navy Commandos and Divers Headquarters.
In 1972, after Giuseppe Panerai’s death, he left the Navy to take up the management of “Guido Panerai e Figlio”, a Florence-based company engaged in important and extremely delicate work for the Special Units of the Italian Navy. In the same year he established and became Sole Director of Officine Panerai Srl, which took over all the activities and industrial capabilities of Guido Panerai. He subsequently became Chairman of Officine Panerai Spa and, after the watch division and trademark were sold to Cartier, of Panerai Sistemi Spa, a position he held until 1999, when the business was transferred to the Bologna-based company Calzoni.
