Question about p.2003 movement appearances

[rp911]

I'm in the process of buying my first Panerai -- I have chosen a 533. My local AD does not offer any sort of discount but there are some decent deals out there.

Forgive me if this is a newbie question but I am noticing that the movement appears different in some of the photos. On the Panerai homepage the movement looks like this:



But I have also seen photos online that look like this ... no "CAL." in front of the P.2003, letter do not appear to be blue, etc. :



Does the appearance of the movement change from year to year, or from the official photos to later versions?

I don't think there is a replica of that 10 day movement -- yet -- but it is a bit concerning.

[Panerai Freak]

The PAM 270 movement has CAL P2003 for sure. I've found more pics of the PAM 533 without it. Here they are:





As far as the color of the lettering is concerned, I believe it is due to the flash in the picture you posted. Look at the difference of the lettering in the official P2003 video (which incidentally has CAL engraved on the movement):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ppRG8uxuk

[rp911]

Thanks for the reply ... was reading about some of the fakes out there and it seems it's really difficult to tell the difference with some of them, just miniscule incorrect details.

[Panerai Freak]

Most in-house Panerai movements would be difficult to replicate, unless someone wanted to reproduce all the components one by one. ETA-based PAM are easier to reproduce since basic clones of their movements are easily available (Asian 6497, 2824, 7750, etc.).