Comments:
The "Geneva Made" engraving on the movement is new. Haven't seen that before on other models. Great job on the close ups. The blue hands against the red and black numbers of the subdials is sharp. Congrats!!!!!
The flying-seconds hand at 10 o’clock goes around the dial in one second against a scale marked in
hundredths of a second, making it theoretically possible to time an object moving at 360,000 km/h, or
approximately 1/3000ths of the speed of light.
On the dial at 2 o’clock, the hand goes around in 20 seconds and the time scale is marked in seconds. The
outer tachometer scale shows the speed against odd numbers of seconds — 1, 3, 5, etc. — while the inner
scale corresponds to the even numbers of seconds.
The third dial, at 6 o’clock, where the hand goes around in 10 minutes, has a similar tachometer scale with
speeds corresponding to 20-second markers. Thus a kilometre travelled in three minutes 40 seconds
represents a speed of 16.4 km/h (to one decimal place).
Wind up Souverain Test
Curious how many winds your Journe takes to reach full power! For my Resonance it takes about 40 winds.
How about your Resonance, CS, Remontoir, Dead Seconds or Centigraphe?
How about your Resonance, CS, Remontoir, Dead Seconds or Centigraphe?
Oh Rats...
...I just wound the Centigraphe this morning from nothing to fully wound before reading this post....
Will have to wait for a few days and then I can answer!! 
Tim
Will take some photos...
...this weekend and post. Loving it. A great addition to my "chrono-addict" collection.
Tim
So, for the Centigraphe ...
... I count 23 turns to wind fully. I'm not actually sure how to measure a "turn" technically, but if it is the movement between thumb and forefinger, then there are 23 of them to wind this watch. Here are some pictures, as requested. Loving it.
Tim
Wow! Great shots!
The "Geneva Made" engraving on the movement is new. Haven't seen that before on other models. Great job on the close ups. The blue hands against the red and black numbers of the subdials is sharp. Congrats!!!!!
Thank you Tim for posting these beautiful FP Journe Centigraphe photos!
I absolutely love the look of this watch and it's definitely high up there on my list now. Thank you!
Cheers,
Anthony
Very cool watch!
Almost missed seeing these beautiful pics. of the Centigraph - brilliant! Major congrats Tim.
You're welcome...
...I think the Centrigraphe will end up being one of THE "modern classic" chronographs (if that's not too much of an oxymoron), alongside the Datograph and perhaps the Duometre.
Tim
So, either...
...the mainsprings for the Centigraphe are of a varying length, or (more likely) we have non-DIN standard thumbs...
Tim
I'll go with the non standard thumbs!
I think I just prefer to wind it more slowly! Did you notice how smooth the winding mechanism is?
The indications
The flying-seconds hand at 10 o’clock goes around the dial in one second against a scale marked in
hundredths of a second, making it theoretically possible to time an object moving at 360,000 km/h, or
approximately 1/3000ths of the speed of light.
On the dial at 2 o’clock, the hand goes around in 20 seconds and the time scale is marked in seconds. The
outer tachometer scale shows the speed against odd numbers of seconds — 1, 3, 5, etc. — while the inner
scale corresponds to the even numbers of seconds.
The third dial, at 6 o’clock, where the hand goes around in 10 minutes, has a similar tachometer scale with
speeds corresponding to 20-second markers. Thus a kilometre travelled in three minutes 40 seconds
represents a speed of 16.4 km/h (to one decimal place).
oh right! thanks for the...
oh right! thanks for the explanation. bit
complicated for me i think.
complicated for me i think.
best
Graham