F.P. Journe - Technical Specifications Summary

Technical Specifications Summary

Apr 19, 2007,04:01 AM

Indications:

Central hours and minutes
One-second chronograph hand at 10'clock
20-seconds chronograph hand at 2 o'clock
10-minutes chronograph hand at 6 o'clock

Dimensions:

Total diameter 34.4mm
Casing-up diameter 34.0mm
Overall height 5.6mm

Movement features:

Central mainspring driving through the barrel and the arbor 15-tooth,
Free-sprung balance with four adjusting weights
Anachron balance-spring
Mobile stud-holder
Pinned collet and stud
Three-position winding crown
Against the case, disengaged
Position 2, winding
Position 3, tiem-setting

Calibre: 1506

Characteristics:

Manual winding
100th-second chronograph
Gold movement

Balance:

Frequency: 21,600 v/h (3Hz)
Inertial: 11.0 mg/cm2
Angle of lift: 52%

Amplitude:

0h dial up: >300 degrees
24h dial up: > 240 degrees

Power reserve:

60 hours without chronograph.
30 hours, chronograph running.

Jewels: 49

Finish:

High grade
Circular stripes on the bridges
Circular-grained baseplate
Polished and bevelled screws
Pegs with rounded, polished ends
Bevelled steel-work with brushed surfaces

This message has been edited by bs22fly on 2007-04-19 07:50:24

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Updated Report! - Introducing the Centigraphe Souverain - New Photos!

By: bs22fly : April 18th, 2007-10:16

Moments before the exhibition took place on Monday, April 16th, 2007 at Montres Journe SA Geneva! Our gracious host Mr. Francois-Paul Journe. Distinguished guests, all accompanied by something familar on the wrist. Wait! Is that really a rose gold bracele...

Looks great! Thanks Brad! [nt]

By: N : April 18th, 2007-10:44

Brad help me with this. (And pardon me if my question is dumb)...

By: mphilippe : April 18th, 2007-11:41

If I get it (probably not) the Centigraphe operates (albeit with a 1/100 of a second accuracy, more later) like a normal chronograph in terms of measuring time up to 10 minutes. (How am I doing ?) The unique feature (excluding the patents stuff) here is t...

The 1/100th of a second accuracy claim is hard to understand

By: Moses : April 18th, 2007-11:58

If the flying seconds hand moves 16 times per second....does it measure 1/16ths of a second? I don't see how it could with a 21,000bph rate. It doesn't say this is a foudroyante mechanism...and I don't understand how it could be. Thinking some more about ...

It moves around the dial "16 times" in one second.

By: bs22fly : April 20th, 2007-05:49

Yes.. measuring speed.

By: bs22fly : April 19th, 2007-04:24

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That's very interesting. F. P. Journe is always pushing the limits of design. The use. .

By: Jack Forster : April 18th, 2007-16:26

. . .of both the arbor and the barrel to drive the train and the chronograph is very neat and from what I gather, the ceintigraph hand jumps sixteen times per second but can be stopped at any point between 'jumps' thereby allowing a finer resolution of ti...