TOURBILLON SOUVERAIN SET WITH DIAMONDS

A NEW TOURBILLON SOUVERAIN TO CELEBRATE THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TOURBILLON SOUVERAIN

THE INNOVATIVE AND REVOLUTIONARY HOROLOGICAL CREATOR FRANÇOIS-PAUL JOURNE HAS INSPIRED A GENERATION OF CONTEMPORARY WATCHMAKERS WITH THE ORIGINALITY OF HIS CREATIONS, HIS QUEST FOR PRECISION, HIS TIMELESS AND IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISABLE STYLE, AND HIS RESPECT FOR HOROLOGICAL ETHICS AND TRADITIONS.

FASCINATED BY THE TOURBILLON SINCE HIS YOUTH, FRANÇOIS-PAUL JOURNE BEGAN TO MAKE HIS FIRST WATCH WHEN HE WAS 20 – ENTIRELY BY HAND. IT WAS A TOURBILLON POCKET WATCH. IN 1991, HE CREATED HIS FIRST TOURBILLON WRISTWATCH, SELLING THE VERY SMALL NUMBER OF EXAMPLES TO A HANDFUL OF KNOWLEDGEABLE COLLECTORS. IN 1999, HE LAUNCHED THE FIRST TOURBILLON SOUVERAIN WITH REMONTOIR D’ÉGALITÉ IN WRISTWATCH FORM. IT WAS SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION AND WAS MUCH SOUGHTAFTER BY COLLECTORS WHO RIVAL WITH EACH OTHER TO GET ON THE SHORT LIST OF 20 EXAMPLES.

Description

MOVEMENT :

18K rose Gold
Manual winding
29 turns of crown

DIMENSIONS :
  • Overall diameter : 34.60 mm
  • Cased-up diameter : 34.20 mm
  • Overall height : 10.00 mm
  • Height of winding stem : 3.66 mm
  • Diameter of stem thread : S1.20 mm
BALANCE :

4 inertia weights
Flat Anachron balance spring with Philips overcoil
Pinned stud
Free-sprung
Spring pinned to collet

FREQUENCY :

21’600 VPH, 3 Hz

INERTIA :

11 mg/cm2

ANGLE OF LIFT :

52°

AMPLITUDE :

0h dial up : > 260°
24h vertical : > 260°

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS :

Vertical Tourbillon with constant force and dead second
2 position winding crown
Manual winding in position 1
Time adjustment by crown in position 2

ESCAPEMENT :

15 tooth escape wheel
90° anchor fork

INDICATIONS :

Hours and minutes at 3h
Small second at 6h
Power reserve at 12h
Vertical Tourbillon at 9h

POWER RESERVE :

80 ± 2 hours

DECORATION :

High quality
Guilloche Clous de Paris on bridges
Circular Geneva Waves on base plate
Screw heads polished and bevelled
Pegs with polished rounded ends

CASE :

Platinum
Diameter: 44.00 mm
Height: 13.76 mm

DIAL :

Dial formed by the blackened 18K rose Gold bridges engraved, painted, and decorated with “Clous de Paris” guilloché with a Grand Feu enamel hour dial at 3 o’clock in 18K white Gold

NUMBER OF COMPONENTS :
  • Mouvement : 230
  • Cased on leather strap : 371
  • Jewels : 32

Brand

FP Journe

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