Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 235

F. P. JOURNE OCTA CALENDAR ON BRACELET 252 PINK GOLD F. P. Journe, Invenit et Fecit, Octa Calendar, No. 252 Q. Made circa 2005. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K pink gold annual calendar chronometer wristwatch with retrograde date, large day of the week and month indication and a special order 18K pink gold F.P. Journe link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a service box. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Off-center, guilloche white with painted radial Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds dial secured to a brushed 18K pink gold plate by 3 screws, outer concentric sector for the retrograde date indication, apertures for the days of the week and the month. Blued steel Journe hands. M. Cal. 1300, pink gold, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic 4-arm balance with 4 timing weights adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating free-sprung fl at balance spring, off-center bi-directional 22K gold guilloche rotor. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved Exclusive Power Reserve System and Precision Chronometer. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.