90,000 CHF
Tourbillon Seconde Morte F. P. Journe, "Invenit et Fecit”, "Tourbillon Souverain à Remontoir d'Egalité avec Seconde Morte”, No. 135-05 TN. Made in 2005. Very fine and rare, platinum chronometer wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, constant force remontoir with dead-seconds, 42-hour power reserve indicator and a platinum F.P. Journe buckle. Accompanied by a certificate. Two-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, winding crown engine-turned with a knurled pattern, sapphire crystals. Subsidiary guilloche silver dials with painted Arabic numerals for the hours and minutes and offset seconds secured to a brushed 18K white gold plate, aperture for the tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 9, up and down indication at 12. Blued steel Journe hands. Notes The F.P. Journe "Tourbillon Souverain à Remontoir d'Egalité avec Seconde Morte” was voted “Watch of the Year 2004” in Japan and was awarded the prestigious “Aiguille d’Or” at the 2004 “Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève”. Dead seconds Or “seconde morte” in French, is a term referring to the way the seconds hand moves forward suddenly once per second, as opposed to its moving gradually, with the oscillations of the balance.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
