It’s been three months since the unveiling of the 2019 Only Watch catalogue and with it, F.P.Journe’s highly anticipated grand complication timepiece, the Astronomic Blue. The Astronomic had been…
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In-Depth: Rediscovering the Chronomètre Souverain
Launched in 2005, the Chronomètre Souverain (CS) is quite often overlooked when it comes to the other models in the collection. Next to the likes of the Centigraphe, the Optimum,…
Reasoning: Why the Vagabondage Dials are not Branded
The Vagabondage series was first launched in 2004 with the release of three pieces donated by François-Paul Journe to the Antiquorum auction house in celebration of their 30th anniversary….
A Closer Look at the N°000 Tourbillon Souverain with a Blued Screw
As with all the N°000 cases, the Tourbillon Souverain remains part of the Montres Journe private collection yet shows interesting characteristics that determine its uniqueness and time of casing….
In-Depth: The Tourbillon Souverain Vertical
It’s been 20 years since the launch of Montres Journe SA, and 20 years since the launch of Journe’s first production model, the Tourbillon Souverain. Twenty years might not seem…
Discovery: A New Finding Regarding the Delivery of the Souscriptions
It is well known by now that in order to fund his brand, François-Paul Journe used a souscription system with his first 20 watches. The pieces were sold to…
A Movement That Created a Collection: The Octa
In 2001, François-Paul Journe released the 3rd model under his brand name F.P. Journe. Whereas the first two were manual-winding movements, being the Tourbillon & Resonance, the choice to debut…
Traveling Through Time with F.P. Journe’s Resonance: Part 2
Recapping Part 1; we took a look at the occurrence of Resonance in watchmaking history right up to François-Paul Journe’s first encounter with one of Breguet’s double pendulum clocks; ending…
F.P. Journe Prototypes and the N°000 Resonance
The Chronomètre Résonance was first released in 2000 as the second model in the Montres Journe SA collection, only one year into the brand’s existence. Whereas I’ve recently wrote…
In Pursuit of Precision: Breaking Down the Chronométre Optimum
Wind the clock back nearly 200 years to the 18th century and you enter what is often referred to as the “Golden Age” of watchmaking. It was during this…
