How to wind a FP JOURNE watch?

About F.P.Journe

In fact, F.P.Journe, which came out in 1999, is still only a favorite of a few people. It is small in scale, with a studio of more than a dozen people, with an annual output of only a hundred pieces, but the price of each watch is more than one million yuan. The Breguet Perpetual Tourbillon designed by François-Paul Journe has a unique constant force device and a power storage device, which is completely different from ordinary tourbillons. He also likes to revolutionize the most ancient and complicated watches, dismantling them into their smallest components, and then assembling them according to his own unique improvement scheme.

The growth of a talented craftsman François Paul Journe, who was obsessed with precision machinery, entered the Marseille watchmaking school at the age of 14. After seeing two extraordinary Breguet and George Daniels pocket watches, the young Journe decided to make his own tourbillon. In 1982, he completed the first tourbillon watch completely handmade by himself except gemstones and a few small parts. Two well-known collectors, including the prestigious Dr. Gschwind, decided to order each from him. make a pocket watch, Journe's career officially began.

In 1996 he came to Geneva and opened his own watch factory there. Three years later, he exhibited two product prototypes with movements completely designed by himself: Tourbillon Souverain and Chronomèter à Résonance, which created world firsts respectively, and were highly welcomed at the Basel exhibition in 1999.

At the end of 1999, his first tourbillon was presented in 11 of the most selective watch retailers in the world. In the spring of 2000, Journe had a booth at the Basel Fair and signed contracts directly with 24 famous retailers around the world. By the spring of 2001, his watches had been exhibited at 34 outlets, with an annual output of 700 complex watches.

Watch winder settings for F.P.Journe

Definitions:

• «CW» - Clockwise winding direction;
• «CCW» - Counterclockwise winding direction;
• «Both» - Combined mode (Clockwise + Counterclockwise);
• «–» - Undefined;

Conclusion

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