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F.P. Journe Tourbillon à Remontoir d'Égalité (Platinum, prototype 15/93), watch front, photographed for its auction lot

F.P. Journe Tourbillon à Remontoir d'Égalité Platinum, prototype 15/93

F.P. Journe, 1993

Object Details

Model
Tourbillon à Remontoir d'Égalité
Reference
Tourbillon à Remontoir d’Égalité
Edition
prototype
Production
1993
Case
38 mm
Material
platinum
Movement
Manual winding
Dial
Gold with hand-engraved inscriptions; cone-and-feeler power-reserve indication at 11 o'clock; Breguet hands
Complication
Tourbillon, Constant force, Power reserve indicator
Provenance
The second wristwatch F.P. Journe ever made and the first he ever sold; one of two examples made in 1993 alongside case no. 16/93 (a separate first prototype, retained by Journe, precedes both); with the same family since 1993, who kept the technical drawings, articles, original invoice and the metal sheet the tourbillon cage was cut from; Phillips, Reloaded: The Rebirth of Mechanical Watchmaking, 1980-1999, 2024, lot 14: CHF 7,320,000 (with buyer's premium)

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