23,400 CHF
Octa Automatique Réserve F. P. Journe, "Invenit et Fecit", "Octa Automatique Réserve", No. 027-AR. Made in 2007. Very fine and rare, self-winding, platinum chronometer wristwatch with 120-hour power reserve, large date and a platinum F.P. Journe buckle. Accompanied by a certificate. Two-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Guilloche silver with painted radial Arabic numerals on a plain outer reserve, subsidiary seconds, sector for the 120-hour up-and-down indication, aperture for the large double digit date. Blued steel Journe hands. Cal. 1300.3 in 18K pink gold, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic 4-arm balance with 4 timing weights adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, off-center bidirectional 22K gold guilloche rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
