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Pagani Design's PD-1833 pairs a dive bezel with an open-heart window, for A$261

A 43mm steel diver with a sapphire crystal, ten bar of water resistance and a window at six where the balance wheel sits.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 14 August 2026

Pagani Design PD-1833 with a blue dial and steel bracelet, balance wheel visible at six o’clock — Image: Pagani Design

The open heart is a dress-watch idea. You cut a window in the dial, give up the six, and the owner gets to sit there watching the escapement swing back and forth. It belongs with thin cases and polished dials. It does not belong under a timing bezel.

Pagani Design has put one there anyway. The PD-1833 arrived on Pagani's own site on 13 August: a bezel marked out like a diver's, ten bar of water resistance and a window at 6 o'clock with the balance wheel behind it, for A$261. On paper the two halves have no business sharing a dial. On the green one they get away with it: gold-coloured balance, matte green dial, and it reads as a decision rather than an accident.

The PD-1833 caseback and bracelet clasp — Image: Pagani Design

Big case, short lugs

316L stainless steel, 43mm across, 14mm thick. That is a large watch by current taste and it is not pretending to be anything else. The crystal is synthetic sapphire, which at this money is the spec worth caring about. Mineral glass on a slab this size would be collecting scratches off the first doorframe it met.

Water resistance is ten bar and the crown is push-pull rather than screw-down. Perfectly ordinary pairing, and it still means keeping the crown pushed all the way home and reading 100 metres as a lab figure rather than a plan for the weekend.

The strap is 24mm wide, which is broad even for a 43mm case, so the lugs have to be short and squared off. It should wear closer to its diameter than most 43mm sports watches manage. Pagani puts the finished weight at 110.2 grams.

The green-dialled PD-1833 on a green nylon strap — Image: Pagani Design

The E3251, and everything the listing leaves out

An automatic mechanical E3251 with hand-winding. That is the entire movement description. No frequency, no power reserve, no jewel count, which is how this end of the market usually behaves and stays the honest weak point of the whole category. You are buying a case, a dial and a crystal, and trusting whatever sits behind the window to keep going.

For the money most people will make that trade happily. Worth knowing you are making it.

The black-dialled PD-1833 on its steel bracelet — Image: Pagani Design

Six versions, one price, for now

Colours are black, green and blue, each on a steel bracelet or a nylon strap. All six combinations cost the same, and the A$261 on Pagani's own Australian storefront covers any of them. In Europe the watch is 156.95 euros against a listed 169.95, so that number is a discount the brand is running now rather than where the price settles.

Nobody is buying a PD-1833 as a serious dive watch. It is a big cheap automatic with a good window in the front, which is a fine thing to have in a drawer. Given the choice I'd have the green, on the nylon strap, with that gold balance doing its thing at six.