Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 467

F.P. JOURNE CENTIGRAPHE SPORT, ALUMINUM F.P. Journe, Invenit et Fecit, Centigraphe Souverain. Made in 2013. Very fine and rare aluminum and rubber wristwatch with lever 1/100th second chronograph, 20-second and 10 minute register and an aluminum and rubber F.P. Journe bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by an FP Journe fitted box and guarantee.

CHF 30,000 - 50,000

HKD 250,000 - 415,000 / USD 32,000 - 53,000

Sold: CHF 43,750

C. Two-body, solid, polished, lever for starting/stopping and resetting the chronograph, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Anthracite, three subsidiary white dials with painted radial Arabic numerals for the 1 second, 20 second and 10 minute registers secured to the aluminum plate by 6 screws. Steel Journe hands. M. Cal. 1506, aluminum movement, fausses cotes decoration, 50 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic 4-arm balance with 4 timing weights adjusted to 5 positions, anachron self-compensating free-sprung fl at balance spring. Dial, case, movement and bracelet signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 10.7 mm. Approx. overall length 193 mm.


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Case: 1

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Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

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HANDS Original

Notes

Centigraphe Souverain The hand-wound movement measures elapsed times from one hundredth of a second to 10 minutes on three dials. The flyingseconds dial at 10 o?clock goes around in one second on a scale marked in hundredths of a second, making it theoretically possible to time an object moving at 360,000 km/h, or approximately 1/3000ths of the speed of light. One ingenious feature of the flying-seconds hand is that it can be stopped anywhere along its one-second journey around its dial, even between two 100th-second divisions, enabling an approximate fractional reading. On the dial at 2 o?clock, the hand revolves in 20 seconds around a time scale divided into seconds. The outer tachometer scale shows the speed against the odd seconds, while the inner scale corresponds to the even seconds. The third dial, at 6 o?clock, whose hand revolves in 10 minutes, has a similar tachometer scale with speeds corresponding to 20-second markers. The chronograph is started, stopped and zeroed by a rocker at 2 o?clock in the case band instead of the usual buttons on either side of the crown. This ergonomic solution has been patented. A second patent was granted for the ingenious configuration of the mechanism, which effectively isolates the chronograph from the timekeeping function. As a result, the amplitude of the balance is unaffected when the chronograph is running.