Catalog: Collection Octa
Company/Brand: F.P.Journe
p in Collection Octa by F.P.Journe
was developed on the basis of one of f.p.journe s most sophisticated inventions the ...
collection octa octa réserve de marche octa chronographe octa calendrier
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of the octa calibre has less powerful ties with the history of watchmaking ... ideal of giving timekeepers the highest possible degree of precision and autonomy within ... note the fact that if church clocks are placed so high in addition to enhancing ... therefore discovered the trick of placing an additional wheel inside the ... an extremely unpredictable level of precision this challenge was a powerful source of ... complications into that same movement power-reserve with large date display fly-back ... that is unique in the world could be presented to the public françois-paul journe ...
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technical variations when françois-paul journe decided to create a range of ... he had two main goals to enhance rating performance and to offer a collection in which all ... construction of such a calibre françois-paul journe succed in bringing together ... winding movement with sufficient power-reserve to ensure precision timekeeping during ... classically built watches with a long power-reserve suffer from the fact that their small ... disturbances on the wrist françois-paul journe therefore imagined a compact ... at a frequency of 21 600 vibrations per hour and is dynamically poised in the ... five possible positions of the watch the inertia blocks enable ...

rating inertia-blocks this movement provides steady and significant force thanks to ... with only 25 loss of amplitude when its power-reserve is exhausted the watch will nonetheless ... five days but without ensuring the same precision timekeeping moreover its fast winding ... in just one and a half hours such a performance should enable the wearer of the watch ... to maintain sufficient power-reserve merely through day-to-day gestures ... nonetheless prolonged periods of inactivity will lead to a depletion ... amount of energy this original and perfectly balanced construction by françois-paul ... managed to attain the maximum useful power-reserve for a automatic winding movement ... without compromising precision the octa calibre is the result of an ... an unprecedented level of reliable precision 52 ...
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with the octa chronographe françois-paul journe is revolutionising the classical ... date display discs to achieve such a performance françoispaul journe imagined flattening ... into a cam wheel this means it is the profiled rim instead of the column which actions ... zero by disengaging the brakes at the precise moment when it hits the specially ... profiled return-to-zero parts these two innovations make it possible ... -sized separate numerals according to a patented display mode the guilloché silver hour ...
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octa calendrier
winding movement to ensure a minimum power-reserve of 120 hours five days enabling ... extremely precise time measurement even when not worn the ... just 1 millimetre once again françois-paul journe has achieved the feat of ...
to the beginning of the next month is programmed by a cam mounted on the month-wheel the ... the date-hand itself is mounted on the pinion between two racks one of which ... -spring the racks hold the date-hand precisely to the numeral on its scale while ...