Catalog: Collection Octa
Company/Brand: F.P.Journe
who invented the clock in Collection Octa by F.P.Journe
the construction of the octa calibre has less powerful ties ... with the history of watchmaking than do the remontoir or the resonance models but ... horological ideal of giving timekeepers the highest possible degree of precision ... context one may mention jobst bürgi who used the remontoir to achieve three ... months of autonomy for his clock one might also note the fact that if ... church clocks are placed so high in addition to ... it often took an entire month for the driving-weights to drop the full length ... of their cords many systems were invented to increase the duration of run of a ... with various degrees of success given the small volume of a wristwatch the spring ... as large as one might wish watchmakers therefore discovered the trick of placing an ...