Allergic to my Panerai?

[Toutoune]

Hello everyone,

Long story short:

- bought a 590 in July 2017
- wore it for a few months and then stopped wearing it
- wore it again sometimes in 2018 and stored it again
- bought an OEM rubber strap this summer so decided to use this as an excuse to wear it again now

Now for the weird part: A red circle on my wrist appeared after a few days. It is located just where the watch is on my wrist and it’s roughly the same size of it.

- Can we all of a sudden become allergic to steel?
- I was wearing another steel watch all summer and nothing happened. Could it be the steel they use to manufacture PAMs? But then why didn’t I get this before?
- The watch being stored in a watch box with some sort of cushions wrapped in some random fabric, could it be a reaction due to the “long exposition” of the back of the watch to the fabric? Then again why only with this watch?

Kind of a boring topic I know but the wife is not ready for this additional topic on watches.

Thanks.

T