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Ref. CM - Chronographe Monopoussoir Rattrapante Case and bracelet in Platinum, also available in Gold or Titanium Manual winding movement in 18 K rose Gold Geneva made
“I invented and made it”
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François Paul Jourme
FRANÇOIS-PAUL JOURNE IS THE MOST AWARDED WATCHMAKER OF OUR TIMES AND IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST WATCHMAKER ALIVE. HIS MOTTO IS THE LATIN SENTENCE: “INVENIT ET FECIT”. HE HAS BEEN “INVENTING” AND “MAKING” WATCHES FOR OVER 35 YEARS. HE DRAWS ON HIS HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE
Excellence and precision are the essence of an F.P.Journe watch, as well as authenticity and chronometry. F.P.Journe produces all of its movements in 18K rose Gold, a first in the watch world and a unique feature of the brand. Signed with the label Invenit et Fecit- (invented and made), each F.P.Journe exclusive movement guarantees a manufacture caliber, entirely invented, constructed, and assembled in the Geneva workshops. At the crossroads between Arts and Haute Horology, the independent F.P.Journe Manufacture is a world in itself, embodying excellence, know-how and innovation, in respect of the haute horology tradition. It was founded with one principle in mind: innovate and uphold, if not outrival the high standards of Haute Horology. Every effort was made to verticalize the production in order to produce inside its walls almost all of the components necessary for the making of F.P.Journe watches. It includes the creation and production of all its dials and watch cases. The modernity of machines and instruments is essential to reach the expected level of perfection, but it is also paramount to maintain craft tradition, since many operations are still done manually, with an infinite precision, tirelessly repeated until flawlessness. In his Manufacture, François-Paul Journe is the master watchmaker and that differentiates the brand from other watch companies. In this rare instance, the watchmaker/ constructor is also the founder of his eponymous manufacture and the President. By being both the owner of the company and its production facilities, François-Paul Journe has the freedom to control his own destiny. It is a costly resolution, but the only way he conceives his watchmaking. He, François-Paul Journe, is intrinsically linked to his work – a Man, his Work.
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AND EXPERTISE TO FACE THE MOST DARING HOROLOGICAL CHALLENGES, DEMONSTRA-
TING A TIMELESS CONSISTENCY IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION WITH A SINGLE GOAL: TO MAKE EACH MECHANICAL TIMEPIECE AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE.
The FP Journe manufacture in Geneva
HERE ARE 3 EXAMPLES OF MR. JOURNE’S WORK THAT REFLECT HIS IMPORTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF WATCHMAKING. From 1910 to 1920, the Swiss industry had doubts on where the market for timekeepers would lead them: pocket watches or the new craze, wristwatches. In what we call the “conversion era,” Swiss watchmakers basically rotated their pocket watches by 90 degrees, added lugs and voilà: here was your wristwatch. But by doing so, watches were now confronted with a new issue: the movement of the wrist. As you move your wrist, due to centrifugal (or inversely centripetal) forces, balance wheels have a tendency to go faster (more precisely, have a larger amplitude) or inversely, thus affecting the accuracy of the watch. What is resonance? It is an acoustic principle: put a watch to your ear and you hear a “tick tock.” Energy has been released in an acoustic form. It makes the air vibrate
until your ear membrane absorbs it and gives your brain the information. There is an emitter (the watch movement) and a receiver (your ear). So, the “tick-tock” is proof of energy being released but not used. In the F.P. Journe Chronomètre à Résonance, you have a double movement with two balance wheels that are both emitters and receivers. It is a law of physics that when two sources produce energy, if they are on the same frequency, they will communicate. And nature makes it so that they balance each other in opposition. More important: when one moves one’s wrist, one balance wheel will go faster while the other one will go slower. As they “resonate,” they will readjust themselves and therefore compensate for the movement - making the Résonance the only “true” wristwatch.
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is your wristwatch a wrist watch? The seconds hands will always be parallel. Because there is a double movement, it allows the user to set two different times on each of the dials. There is much debate on what makes a watch a true world timer. Obviously the resonance offers much more than a GMT (which only partitions time in one-hour increments over 24 hours). But many countries never adhered to the 1884 Washington International Meridian conference. Countries such as Australia use a half-hour increment. Nepal is UTC +5:45! Here you may set two different times that are totally independent - except that their seconds will be in sync. The Resonance movement