F.P. Journe

I went to the Boutique yesterday in fact to see several cases / watches side by side. The CS unfortunately for my taste remains with the thicker (or fat) bezel and as much as I’m drawn to a particular CS I’m struggling with how the bezel looks and how it

Needless to tell you that I am absolutely delighted, this colour combination is uber classy and I love the design of this Lune from FPJ. I’ll make a decent photo shooting after summer holidays but this first shot already gives a good idea of how beautiful

Happy Friday from my Octa lune

My Goldendoodle Karma (as in we only wanted good Karma) admiring my F.P.Journe Octa Automatique Havana Lune. She has good taste!

and depending on one’s taste, some Journe collectors would state that the Lune came out the least successful in the Octa family because of the use of space. I think Irl it’s not as evident as when thrown in your face on a screen. Of course some also frown

So we look at bit deeper… The Octa was designed as a base movement (automatic) with the asymmetrical layout so that it could give space to integrate different complications in to the same movement and avoid stacking. As FP says. “I don’t make hamburgers.”

The Divine is basically the same watch as what is now called the Automatiqe lune but with a different dial. The Divine dial variant was never as popular as the regular version. I guess just because the layered dial was just a more outlandish design. If yo

The beauty of the Havana dial on the well worn platinum case on my Octa Automatique Havana Lune.

I went to pick up my Octa Lune this week on Monday, thanks to Okuno-san at the Tokyo Boutique. And due to this latest acquisition, I have been given the honor of starting the FP Friday post this week. My first FP Friday (yeah!) I am happy now to be able t