I know F.P. Journe doesn’t officially participate in Watches & Wonders, but last year during W&W week I was invited to a luncheon at the Manufacture and had the chance to see and try on all the 2025 releases firsthand — including the two boutique Chronomè

Here’s a different picture of my CTS at the same crossing!

…I wish I could offer something different, but it’s Friday and so it’s CTS day. I’m a little overdressed as it’s beginning to warm up here, the PM will like not require a jacket. Have a good weekend all.

F.P. Journe Centigraphe Sport Source: A Collected Man Ingersoll Wrist 1915

Our dear Ronald Held recently suggested that a thread dedicated to white metals was long overdue . So, here's one . The list I have compiled is as follows (in “alphabetical” order). It is certainly incomplete : so please feel free to suggest other white m

Finally the rain stopped and the sun is trying to peak through the remaining clouds.

Super nice guy too. Fun fact; my first experience hands on with Journe’s Line Sport was his watch. And that changed it all, once you held one of those in your hand it all made sense. That was the impetus for me eventually buying a CTS.

I owned the Octa Sport (titanium) and it was a fantastic watch. In some ways a better expression of the Octa Sport concept, since with the automatic winding and big date it was SO good as a weird easy to wear everyday sporty watch... but I still would hav

It’s funny to look back at this. The only person banging the Centigraphe drum publicly at that time was The Journe Guy. It’s always the watch I associate with him because of that. For me the sapphire dials of the Sport version, or at that point the Annive

I have no idea if it is more instrumental than dressy but I do know it is beautiful and I could look at it for ages and still have no clue how to read the chronograph or I could look at the movement and not care. Marc