F.P. Journe

Jack Forster
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Ohhhh, man. F. P. Journe does it again. This is just a deliciously clever. . .

. . . piece of machinery.  For my money this is the most interesting shot:



This is exactly the kind of creative mechanical solution that characterizes M. Journe's work IMVHO- you can see the sawtoothed wheel that catches and releases the centigraph hand mounted co-axially with the escape wheel.  It's a neat concept -one of the interesting things about it is that it looks like when the chronograph is engaged, you've actually got the centigraph hand 'helping along' the escape wheel. 

As usual I would love to see full clear schematics for the whole thing and as usual I bet I have to piece it together on my own from press release pictures .  Still, this just continues M. Journe's incredible saga of both classically harmonious and traditional, yet incredibly novel horological thinking -and all within the idiom of classic watchmaking.  No weird materials you need a supercomputer, a cyclotron, and a positron collider to work with (uh, not that there's anything wrong with that ) .

Thanks Brad, great report, and thanks F. P. Journe for keeping the bar set high!

Jack

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