Brand Information: F.P. Journe
Francois-Paul Journe was born in 1959. He is a Marseille-born French watchmaker, from the Provencal countryside who, despite an unruly childhood, graduated at age 17 from the Paris watchmaking school. His first job was with his uncle, restoring rare private horological collections. Journe's first watch was completed in 1978. No less than a sprung-detent tourbillon pocket-watch, in the manner of Abraham-Louis Breguet. He went on the demonstrate constant-force tourbillons, an astronomical (planetary) watch, a sympathique clock-watch combination, and a self-winding perpetual-calendar pocket-watch, with fusee-detent escapement and constant-force remontoir, showing retrograde date, moon-phase and equation of time. Consequently, F.P. Journe is one of the rare few at the highest levels of the watchmaking art. Only a select few connoisseurs have the privilege to own an F.P. Journe masterpiece and marvel at its exceptional craftmanship.
Tourbillon Souverain Mens Wristwatch
Model: TS.PT.40.TB |
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Retail Price:
$148,800.00
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Our Price: $113,500.00
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$35,300.00
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This is the F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain TS.PT.40.TB watch
Other series by F.P. Journe include: |
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TS.PT.40.TB |
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F.P. Journe |
| Style Number: |
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TS.PT.40.TB |
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Tourbillon Souverain |
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Mens |
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Platinum |
| Dial Color: |
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Silver (Ruthenium-Clad) |
| Watch Bracelet / Strap: |
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Leather - Black Crocodile |
| Watch Clasp: |
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Platinum Tang Buckle |
| Movement: |
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Mechanical Hand-Wound |
| Engine: |
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FP Journe Calibre 1403 (26 rubies, 21,600vph) |
| Functions: |
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Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds, Power Reserve, Tourbillon |
| Crystal: |
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Sapphire - Anti-Reflective, curved |
| Case Diameter: |
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40.0 mm |
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9.1 mm |
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Transparent Exhibition Display Back secured by six screws |
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Platinum |
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Fixed |
| Water Resistance: |
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30m / 100ft (Dust resistant) |
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Platinum, hand-worked, knurled |
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None |
| Power Reserve: |
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42-hour power reserve |
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Plates and bridges made of 18k gold. One minute tourbillon.
The remontoir d'égalité (constant-force remontoir). This is an arcane horological device. It consists of a supplementary energy source — a spring or weights. Armed via the going train by the main power source, it feeds constant force directly to the escapement. The remontoir thus absorbs the fluctuations of power coming through the going train, isolating the escapement from their effects. The remontoir principle was used in tower clocks where the wind catching the hands would put pressures on the going train that would disturb the rate, if allowed to act directly on the escapement. It was also common in the best observatory regulator clocks, and much of Abraham-Louis Breguet's research was devoted to constant-force escapements. The design of the remontoir d'e'galite' has been studied in order to allow for complete visibility in the back part of the watch. The opening in the main plate gives visual access to the mechanisms that superintend its working: a secondary rotary device receives energy from the mainspring, accumulates it for a second and instantaneously releases it through the force of a second calibrated spring, in order to arrive smoothly when meeting the balance wheel. The presence of the remontoir d'e'galite', has also allowed Journe to introduce the dead-beat seconds (Seconde Morte). In this movement, the seconds hand moves with jumps of one second at a time, and not semi-continuously as is usual. The same energy that is released by the remontoir d'e'galite' device also allows driving the seconds hand with instantaneous impulses but without, however, minimally disturbing the chronometrical precision of the movement. |
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