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Terrific report and wonderful pictures, Christian.
So glad you found the time to visit the exhibit and write about it.
It’s 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. The second path, and still the one true novel path, is resonance. And after 20 years of working with this concept he continues to not just make modifications but a complete overhaul of the scheme and come up with something really new.
For the first time I am truly looking forward to seeing a Resonance: the RQ. Hope you get one in your hands (on your wrist) soon!
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Chronometre a Resonance 20 Years Retrospective Exhibition in Geneva
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!
Great history line! I hope they would exhibit them in Tokyo someday too...
my pleasure :-)
The tokyo boutique as fantastic. a very special building and the store is very, very nice.
Thank you, looks like an amazing exhibit! I hope it comes to NY one day ...
The chronometre resonance is one of the greatest masterpieces of modern watchmaking. I love how seeing its evolution goes to the heart of the development of FP Journe as a watchmaker.
I agree. The Resonance is a very significant addition to the modern watch.
I also love how raw and simple things where in the beginning, before it becomes Manufacture pieces. Despite the progression, I also think it is striking how clear his vision was from the beginning.
Thank you!
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...
many thanks dear Christian for a great report
amazing pieces and more amazing history thanks again and all the best
Superb Post.
So many amazing pieces, especially that prototypes. I wish I could attend the exhibition. Anyway, Thanks for sharing.
Great report with remarkable pieces.
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.
My pleasure :-) I believe it is made of brass and silver.
The watch was apparently in parts up untill the exhibition when FP reassebled it.
Wonderful retrospective for FPJ ...
Thank you for taking us with you Christian. Looking forward to seeing your post about the new Resonance.
You are so very welcome Cpt :-)
More to come in the pipeline! The new Resonance RQ blew my mind. It is extraordinary!!!!
dear George, that was truly my pleasure!
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.
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 I’ve heard him say, these first attempts wer...
My Pleasure, Jay :-)
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.
So glad you found the time to visit the exhibit and write about it. It’s 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.
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...
How I wish the current watches looked like the original one...
...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...
It was really rustic, I tell you. The subdials where hardly readable.
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...
