News: F.P. Journe Havana collection
Known for making exceptional, award-winning watches, F.P. Journe has secured the respect of a very traditional industry despite only being founded in 1999. This is, in part, thanks to its exquisite designs, something made only more apparent with the F.P. Journe Octa Lune and Octa Reserve Havana collection.
Featuring tobacco-brown dials and caramel alligator straps, the Havana collection—unlike the Zenith Christophe Colomb Cohiba edition, which has a dial textured to look like a tobacco leaf—simply uses colour as its inspiration.
The watches are cased in platinum and are available in a 40mm size, with power coming from the hand-finished 1300.3 in-house calibre. A big date, small seconds and power reserve are found on both; the Octa Lune gains a moonphase complication as well.
In true F.P. Journe tradition, the calibre is fashioned from 18-carat rose gold, with a 22-carat rose gold rotor. Ceramic bearings lock the rotor so it can only turn in one direction, reducing mechanism wear—one of the many developments the watchmaker has seeded into its collections. Despite the movement’s slender dimensions, it somehow manages to carry five days of power.
