Horological Meandering

This blue dial can simply never be captured in any pic.

 It’s like looking into a deep chromium blue mirror.

Or a blue liquor drink… with a splash of cream and mercury…

If the CS is Journe’s idea of texture, the CB is Journe’s idea of smoothness.

You can look INTO this dial, as you can into a mirror or water.

 Yet it is also very reflective, and runs the full spectrum of blue, depending…

 Every detail is right and true, and bears the ‘fingerprints’ of a highly evolved watchmaker. Maybe a highly evolved watchmaker who seems to be having a lot of fun, too.

One of the big attractions for me has been the Tantalum case.

It comes across visually as a pewter-gray-blue.

Stealth is an understatement.

But for the aficionado… heavenly sublime.

It is no color blue that anyone can name, is it? Tantalum is still a new experience for us visually. How can any of us begin …? The case-shape is pure Journe, classic, yet modern. And the thinnest Journe to date, if I am not mistaken.

 It is thin by today’s standards, and denotes a ‘proper’ dress watch, yet at the same time, the color of the dial is irrepressibly, well, blue! 

And the numbers and hands are well, cream color! This is not a stuffy dinner watch! But could you wear it to the finest event of your life? Most definitely yes.

 The cream numerals and hands are NOT white, NOT bright, but soft and legible, and the Journe Numbers in their circular display, seem to deliver happiness like a happiness-faucet running with no shut off switch. 

It is just absolutely, completely, hypnotically designed. I love the word Nicolas often uses: cohesive.

 The design is cohesive. No weak link here.

And the rose gold movement against the Tantalum case? Whew! Talk about cool! You gotta see this rg movement inside this blue case… crazy hot, crazy cool.

The CB is Reductive… to the barest most essential Journe elements, and blue! 

When I wear this watch, I feel much cooler, much more seductive, and much more of a hotshot than I actually am!  

I need a blue Martini to go with this watch.

It must be among the most cosmopolitan watches a man can wear. 

But it is also an example of traditional watchmaking and design at a giggle-inducingly high level.

Well, here are my (as usual) casual pics