Release: F.P. Journe Limited Series of 99 pieces celebrating its 20 years
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ChristianDK April 12th, 2021-02:16
Hard not to love I’m curious to see the texture of the dial. It looks quite granular in the press release.
ChristianDK April 12th, 2021-02:06
This is clearly a hommage to the original but it is not an exact copy- can you spot the differences? Here is my old one for reference ...
fpjl April 12th, 2021-02:17
God. This has to be the prettiest RDM out there. That pink dial!
ChristianDK April 12th, 2021-04:26
Thank you so much, Sir :-) I love this one. A small fun detail is that this one was built by Mr Journe Personally. It had its first service last year.
dnlmpg April 12th, 2021-23:58
You've had yours serviced? I'm surprised they didn't swap out the old second hand, which they did to mine did you ask them not to? I wish I could get mine back...
ChristianDK April 13th, 2021-00:04
No, I didnt ask. Maybe yours had an issue? Did they say why?
dnlmpg April 13th, 2021-02:01
No mine didn't have issue with, but rather the date changing mechanism According to ACM's articles, FPJ factories would typically just swap out the old seconds hands when they are in for a service. And this was what happened to mine. I think they know to give yours a special treatment. You're one lucky man. " The collector ...
ChristianDK April 13th, 2021-12:17
Thats quite interesting but I cant help thinking it is coincidence. I just compared the seconds hand to those on my 2005 Resonance. To the naked eye the difference is tiny. Mine had the date issue as well but I just lived with it. In the end the watch started to run irregular. I was a bit scared to have it serviced. My ma...
dnlmpg April 14th, 2021-03:38
Hmm intriguing When you finally brought it in for service, did you ask them to preserve as much as possible? That could be why
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