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François-Paul Journe set up his eponymous house in Geneva to be inside the supplier network and finishing tradition that an independent at his scale could not have built from outside it.
Founded 1999 by François-Paul Journe (b. 1957) in Geneva. The most influential single living watchmaker in modern haute horlogerie. Production is intentionally tiny (sub-1,000 watches per year across the entire catalog) and the design vocabulary, off-center small-seconds dial, brass plate movements, the 'Souscription' production model, is distinctive enough that 'a Journe' is its own descriptor.
top-luxuryneo-vintageFP Journe Cal. 1304 -- manual-wind, in-house, 21,600bph, 56h PR from twin parallel barrels; 18k rose gold movement; used in Chronometre Souverain and Chronometre Bleu40mm2005–presenteditorial
top-luxuryneo-vintageFP Journe Cal. 1304 -- manual-wind, in-house, 21,600bph, 56h PR from twin parallel barrels; 18k rose gold movement; used in Chronometre Souverain and Chronometre Bleu39mm2009–presenteditorial
top-luxurymodernFP Journe Cal. 1520 -- manual-wind twin-movement resonance, 18,000bph, 40h PR; two coupled movements regulate each other via air resonance; world-first in wristwatches40mm2020–presenteditorial
top-luxuryneo-vintageFP Journe Cal. 1300.3 -- manual-wind with jumping seconds and power reserve, 18,000bph, 40h PR; platinum rotor when in gold case; Octa Automatique caliber40mm2007–presenteditorial
top-luxurymodernFP Journe Cal. 1519 -- manual-wind tourbillon, 18,000bph, 40h PR; 18k rose gold gilt movement, remontoir d'egalite; used in Tourbillon Souverain40mm2019–presenteditorial
