F. P. Journe Octa Automatique Reserve Platinum Havana Dial

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This is a 950 platinum FP Journe Octa Automatique Reserve CS Havana Platinum. It has a leather strap with a platinum tang buckle and scratch resistant sapphire crystals. Turning the pull-out "Cordes de Marseilles" grip crown in opposite directions at position 2 sets the date, and the time is set with the crown in position 3. There is a screwed-down sapphire crystal display case back secured with 6 screws and it's engraved with "FP. JOURNE – INV.FECIT -PT950 – OCTA AUTO," and a serial number. The 40mm diameter solid two-body case, concave bezel, and straight curved lugs are polished. The dial is Havana brown with a large fine circular guilloche center, and luminous white Arabic numeral hour markers embossed from the back and then bright polished. It has matching white gold Journe hands, and an outer white railway-style minute track on a plain concentric reserve. It includes a recessed running small seconds sub dial between 4 and 5 o'clock with a white gold indicator hand with an "observatoire" style counterbalance, a large date aperture between 11 and 12 o'clock, and a fan-shaped power reserve indicator wedge at 9 o'clock with a white gold indicator hand and white Arabic numerals. It has a 120-hour/5-day power reserve at full wind, and it's water resistant to 30 meters/100 feet. It includes a Certified Official Superlative Chronometer (COSC) certificate, and the 8 mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This FP Journe Octa Automatique Reserve CS Havana Platinum has an automatic self-winding FP Journe caliber 1300.3 that's rose gold/brass with Cotes de Geneve embellishment. It's decorated with a partly circular grained baseplate, gilt engravings, and polished screw heads with chamfered slots. It includes pegs with polish rounded ends, and the steelwork has polished chamfers and straight graining. It's constructed with 37 jewels, 293 components, and a shock absorber mechanism. It has uni-directional automatic winding, an in-line lever escapement with a 15-tooth wheel, and a balance with 4 inertia weights adjusted to 5 positions. There is a flat Anachron microflamed spring, a mobile stud holder, a self-compensating free-sprung balance, a pinned GE stud, and a three-position crown slipping mainspring. It has an off-center bi-directional 22K gold Barleycorn guilloche rotor, with a winding speed of 274 clockwise revolutions every 24 hours without mainspring slipping. The rotor oscillates with a frequency of 21,600 vph (3 Hz). The movement is engraved "Exclusive Power Reserve System" and "Precision Chronometer." The FP Journe Octa Automatique Reserve CS Havana Platinum was produced in 2017.

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