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How I wish the current watches looked like the original one...
Aug 31, 2020,09:13 AM
...with the engraved text on the dial and a truly hand-made look for the movement. Somehow FPJ watches are looking a little too refined. I prefer a more rustic-looking watch...
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Chronometre a Resonance 20 Years Retrospective Exhibition in Geneva
By: ChristianDK : August 30th, 2020-16:12
From Tuesday, September 1.st to Friday September 4.th, there is a respective exhibition of the Chronometre a Resonance on display, at the F.P. Journe Manufacture, in Geneva. The exhibition will be accessible to the public during this period. This year mar...
Thank you for posting this!
By: akewises : August 30th, 2020-16:45
Great history line! I hope they would exhibit them in Tokyo someday too...
my pleasure :-)
By: ChristianDK : August 30th, 2020-17:19
The tokyo boutique as fantastic. a very special building and the store is very, very nice.
Yes it was crazy.
By: ChristianDK : August 30th, 2020-21:50
Of course the years have made it very rustic. But none the less.
Thanks Christian!
By: igibliss : August 30th, 2020-21:21
Amazing post for us that canβt be there.
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By: ChristianDK : September 1st, 2020-12:31
Thank you!
By: furen : August 30th, 2020-22:52
I have been a Journe fan since the early 2000, but was only able to purchase my first Journe last year. It was perfect timing. Because after i got mine, prices started flying. I never bought it for the investment. It was a passion and dream purchase. Than...
Superb Post.
By: RG1 : August 31st, 2020-01:22
So many amazing pieces, especially that prototypes. I wish I could attend the exhibition. Anyway, Thanks for sharing.
Great report with remarkable pieces.
By: COUNT DE MONET : August 31st, 2020-02:20
What happened to that prototype from 1998? What have they done to watch to make it look so aged, so battered? Thank you for this nice post.
Wonderful retrospective for FPJ ...
By: Cpt Scarlet : August 31st, 2020-02:55
Thank you for taking us with you Christian. Looking forward to seeing your post about the new Resonance.
You are so very welcome Cpt :-)
By: ChristianDK : August 31st, 2020-03:34
More to come in the pipeline! The new Resonance RQ blew my mind. It is extraordinary!!!!
Wonderful, thanks for
By: Passionata_george : August 31st, 2020-03:42
sharing it , I think FPJ is/will be the new PP.
dear George, that was truly my pleasure!
By: ChristianDK : August 31st, 2020-05:08
I think you are right in your prediction that FPJ is getting recognition on a whole new and different level - and in the very top! Still the companies and the production numbers belong to different worlds. I think the collectors are getting much more crit...
Thanks Christian for the quick turnaround and posting of this.
By: Jay (Eire) : August 31st, 2020-05:34
We all wish we could be there I think; alas not to be right now. Interesting to note the misspelling of Resonance on that very first watch. I think Journe has a good giggle at that now. It is true, as I believe Iβve heard him say, these first attempts wer...
My Pleasure, Jay :-)
By: ChristianDK : August 31st, 2020-07:04
I can well understand your disappointment in not being able to see the exhibition. Ive told the staff they should consider a reprise. I think this exhibition materializes (a part of) the core of what F.P. journe is! Also a lot of fun to be able to compare...
Terrific report and wonderful pictures, Christian.
By: TheMadDruid : August 31st, 2020-06:11
So glad you found the time to visit the exhibit and write about it. Itβs amazing that Journe has basically devoted his talent to the specific idea of making the most accurate chronometre and yet that endeavor has led him to go down so many different paths...
thank you so much Mike. It was really a pleasure to do.
By: ChristianDK : August 31st, 2020-07:09
I think his vision is so clear and so simple and yet he has been able to elaborate it across so many movements and and designs. And you are never in doubt if it is a Journe. Lots of variation within the coherence. Its also what makes it fun to collect - b...
It was really rustic, I tell you. The subdials where hardly readable.
By: ChristianDK : August 31st, 2020-11:40
It was cool for what it is, but too much. FPJ was never about hand engraved and superb beveling ala Phillipe Dufour, turning out 25 watches in a year.. His ambition, from the very beginning -so he told over the weekend, has always been to build a true man...