To have fun the twentieth Anniversary of the F.P. Journe Tokyo boutique, the Genevan watchmaker created a restricted version timepiece.
The Chronographe FB incorporates a glossy 40 mm x 10.4 mm diameter polished titanium case with an 18K 6N gold crown and pushers, a gilded ruthenium dial on gold, gold hour and minutes palms, sapphire counters, and that’s complemented by a burgundy alligator leather-based strap mounted on an 18K 6N Gold folding clasp.
Beneath the dial is F.P. Journe’s beautiful caliber 1518.2 in 18K rose gold — which boasts a flyback chronograph that enables the wearer to reset and restart the chronograph immediately by urgent the pusher at 4 o’clock, enabling successive measurements.
The hand-wound 3Hz motion can run for as much as 80 hours with out the chronograph operating and is completed with round stripes on the bridges, straight graining, a mainplate that’s partly circular-grained, metal elements with polished chamfers, polished screw heads with chamfered slots, and pegs with polished rounded ends.
A tachymeter scale surrounds the dial, indicating velocity for a distance primarily based on 1000 meters utilizing the chronograph seconds hand, which makes an entire revolution in 2 minutes (the minute counter at 3 o’clock completes its rotation each 60 minutes, with every jump-of-the-hand being 2 minutes.
An outsized aperture at 6 o’clock shows the date and has been color-matched for a seamless look.
The Chronographe FB is proscribed to 200 items.
