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Pagani Design's PD-1832 is a 42mm sunburst automatic with sapphire, for A$217

A 42mm automatic with a sapphire crystal, an exhibition back and 10 bar, listed at A$217 on Pagani Design's Australian store.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 12 August 2026

The Pagani Design PD-1832 on a steel bracelet, with a green sunburst dial, applied baton markers, Arabic numerals at twelve, nine and six, and a date at three. — Image: Pagani Design

A$217 buys a 42mm automatic with a sapphire crystal, 10 bar of water resistance and a display back to watch the rotor through. Pagani Design put the PD-1832 up on its own store on 11 August.

Sapphire used to be the line between cheap watches and everything else, and it has been sliding down the price list for years now, so I am not easily startled by it. Two hundred and seventeen dollars still made me look twice. That is bracelet money.

The PD-1832 exhibition caseback, showing the automatic movement and its skeletonised rotor through sapphire. — Image: Pagani Design

Steel, a push-pull crown and the Y-9018

The case is stainless steel, 42mm across and 11.85mm thick, and Pagani weighs it at 148 grams. The crown is push-pull rather than screw-down, so treat the 10 bar as a rain and washing-up rating rather than a swimming one. Strap width is 22mm, and you choose steel bracelet or leather.

Inside is the Y-9018 automatic, as Pagani lists it. It winds itself and it runs. Through the exhibition back there is a skeletonised rotor doing the work, which is a bit of theatre nobody at this money was obliged to include.

Sunburst green, and only three numerals

Sunburst finish in green, blue or black, applied baton markers with polished edges, applied Arabic numerals at twelve, nine and six and nowhere else, and a date window where the three would sit. The minute track runs round the outer edge in fine print with a number every five, and the bezel is a thin polished ring, so the dial gets most of the case.

Green, if you're asking. Sunburst green catches light in a way the blue doesn't, going near-black on the angle and bottle green face on, with the polished markers sitting on top of it.

None of it copies a single watch, which is not where you expect a homage brand to land. The 12-9-6 batons are a German dress-watch habit more than a Swiss one, and the flat bezel and the sharp lugs pull in the same direction. Borrowed in general, then made into something of its own.

The PD-1832 with a blue sunburst dial on a blue leather strap, seen at an angle against a white background. — Image: Pagani Design

42mm, and no lug-to-lug to settle it

42mm with an 11.85mm case and a flat bezel means plenty of dial and not much wrist relief. Under a 17cm wrist it will read large, and a 22mm strap won't talk it down. There is no lug-to-lug published, which is the number that would actually settle the question.

What A$217 also doesn't buy is a service relationship. A movement that dies outside warranty will cost more in a watchmaker's time than the watch did.

Sapphire against Hardlex

Against a Seiko 5 the trade is plain enough. You get sapphire where Seiko still fits Hardlex, and you give up a movement with a spare-parts network behind it. Against nothing at all, which is the honest comparison for most people looking at one of these, it is a lot of watch.

All six are the same money. Green, blue and black, on leather or steel, A$217 on Pagani's Australian storefront.