Catalog: Souveraine Collection
Company/Brand: F.P.Journe
p 60 in Souveraine Collection by F.P.Journe
or such a watch as far as the resonance phenomenon is concerned the intuition that energy ... to the 18th century and the research performed by the great chemist a.l de lavoisier ... transformed with the invention of the pendulum watchmakers noticed that their beat ... and it was not unusual for a pendulum clock to stop of its own accord when ... the pendulum entered into resonance with the driving ... -weight suspended from its cords a particularly brilliant watchmaker or mechanical ... build two complete movements with two precision escapements and to place them close to ... each other ensuring that the two pendulums were hanging from the same construction ... just as he imagined the pendulums recovered the energy dissipated by each ... maintained by this wave and thus protected from outside vibrations this principle ...

chronomètre à résonance françois-paul journe pays tribute to the research ... great 18th century watchmakers with the presentation of the first wristwatch resonance ... the mechanical watch using the natural phenomenon of resonance this mechanism ... established standards and offers a previously unmatched degree of precision in ... wristwatches the first research on the phenomenon of research in horological science ... way research into ways of using this phenomenon in the operating of regulators 60 ...
calibre fpjourne 1403 tourbillon with 60-second rotation polished steel carriage flat ... balance-spring with philips terminal curve lateral lever ... escapement frequency of 21,600 vph dedicated 4-arm balance with ... from second to second 26 jewels plate and bridges in 18-carat pink gold 65 ...

as clocks were becoming increasingly precise watchmakers added a hand finally ... seconds these clocks which became pendulum clocks thanks to the invention of the ... pendular balance by the dutch watchmaker huygens ... with a 1 metre-long balance with a period of 1 second the dial was marked out ... into 60 subdivisions so that the hand could ... so they invented systems extending the period of the balances the best-known being ... the crown-wheel escapement with pendulum or the huge balance by mr pouzait ... since they were detrimental to precision thus without an additional system the ... the advantage of not affecting the precision of the watch and could be disconnected ... additional seconds wheel equipped with 60 teeth held by a spring this extremely ... simple system was extremely prejudicial to precision in the third a so-called ...

tourbillon is already made up of over 60 parts each gesture calls for extreme ... dexterity and tireless perseverance the tourbillon souverain à seconde ... is the worthy heir to the very first passion of françois-paul journe for a ... well-known and commercialised among the public at large he dreamed of owning a ... all his free time creating this first pocket-watch with tourbillon and constant-force ... to resituate this approach in a period when quartz watches had gained ... a dozen or so clients worldwide were potentially interested in buying a tourbillon ... only watchmakers along with françois-paul journe to actually make tourbillon ... carrying the signature françois-paul journe fecit à paris with tourbillon ... of wrist chronometers signed f.p.journe invenit et fecit it was obvious ...