Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 27, 2019

LOT 242

F.P. JOURNE “INVENIT ET FECIT”, 18K PINK GOLD MOVEMENT, “TOURBILLON SOUVERAIN” “REMONTOIR D’EGALITÉ AVEC SECONDE MORTE”; LIMITED EDITION; PLATINUM

HKD 650,000 - 1,000,000

CHF 81,250 - 125,000 / USD 82,850 - 127,400

Sold: HKD 875,000

Platinum, manual-winding, tonneau-shaped, gentleman’s chronometer wristwatch, with sapphire-crystal case-back screwed by six screws, concave lugs, winding crown engine-turned with a “cordes de Marseille” pattern, 18K gold plate dial with silver colour guilloché (engine-turned) dials with offset hours and minutes dial at 3 o’clock, subsidiary seconds at 6, one-minute tourbillon regulator at 9 o’clock, 42-hour power-reserve indication, constant force remontoir and dead beat second.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Brand F.P.Journe

Model “Invenit et Fecit”, “Tourbillon Souverain”, “Remontoir d’Egalité avec Seconde Morte”; limited edition

Year Circa 2005

Calibre  1403, in 18K pink gold

Case No. 046-04 TN

Bracelet Platinum FPJ bracelet with deployant clasp, approximately 185 mm

Diameter 40 mm

Signature Dial, Case and Movement

Notes

François-Paul Journe, “Tourbillon Souverain”, “Remontoir d’Egalité avec Seconde Morte” The “Tourbillon Souverain”, a François-Paul Journe’s horological masterworks, is distinguished by its complications combining a one-minute tourbillon regulator with a “remontoir d’égalité”. The remontoir provides a constant force to the balance, hence maintaining an equal rate of force whether the watch is fully wound or not and increasing precision. In the second generation of the “Tourbillon Souverain” watches, such as the present lot, F.P. Journe added a “seconde morte”, a dead beat second indication.