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Great review, Malik. Thanks!
Nov 30, 2012,13:25 PM
Clear and helpful summary of the Optimum's main features and I can feel your passion for the piece coming through in your writing. Great to read that.
Like you I think the Optimum is a very important piece from Journe. As well as the mechanical credentials, it has some interesting and even quirky design features that many people will find themselves terminally enamoured with.
One comment is that if Journe had put the dead seconds display on the front of the watch then it would have turned clockwise. Perhaps it would have been interesting to have both the 3Hz and 1Hz displays of the escapement and remontoir on display in the front of the watch, but I like this quirky 'compromise'.
And putting a 42mm watch into the range is so smart. We now have 38mm, 39mm, 40mm and 42mm options. Something to suit every wrist.
Thanks again.
Andrew
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FP Journe, Chronomètre Optimum
By: pifpaf : November 28th, 2012-11:48
A few days ago, Geoffrey Ader knocked-down the George Daniels Space-Dweller at Sotheby's for the astronomical price of 1.6 million CHF. This pocket watch which displays the solar time as well as the sidereal time features a double escapement device, a spe...
Thank you, Malik...
By: pplater : November 28th, 2012-12:49
...for an insightful review of the 'watch of the moment'. You have captured some important details which others have not yet mentioned, and they are very relevant details to those who are thinking about the possible 'investment'. For a moment, though, for...
For me, Journe, was one of the first myth, of yougness of watch addict, at the begin of
By: pifpaf : November 29th, 2012-05:37
the 2000'... He make a lot of weird things this last years, like the Alesi... That not at all, that I hope from Journe. With this watch, he back to the basic, with a real talent, and a real mechanical interest. And aesthically, apart the "handmades" Journ...
Perfect report Malik
By: Mark in Paris : November 28th, 2012-15:14
I like technical desciptions as it is a very important part of what made me love watches. But when it came to Remontoir d'egalité or Echappement naturel, I had a little difficulty in really understanding the way it worked, especially as those watchmakers ...
Thanks Mark... You know, watchmakers, live in the world of... Watchmakers.
By: pifpaf : November 29th, 2012-05:44
It's not the world of the horological business (that don't interest me), and not in the world of the watch addict. The Press Kit from FP Journe is really good (this is quite rare), but you need a good technical level to fully understand it. Here, I male s...
Love that last shot!
By: BluNotte : November 28th, 2012-16:59
I believe that this is the 40mm Pt version? Merci for the report! Stephen
Deep Thought ...
By: AndrewD : November 30th, 2012-13:36
I believe that only the 42mm Oprimum's have been doing the rounds. I expect the bezel on the 40mm to be thinner than this, but I may be wrong. So, with thanks to Douglas Adams, I believe the answer is 42. But what was the question?! :-) "Now," said Deep T...
Great review, Malik. Thanks!
By: AndrewD : November 30th, 2012-13:25
Clear and helpful summary of the Optimum's main features and I can feel your passion for the piece coming through in your writing. Great to read that. Like you I think the Optimum is a very important piece from Journe. As well as the mechanical credential...
