F.P. Journe 30 Years Anniversary Tourbillon Ref. T30 Limited Series Rose Gold Silver White Dial

The T30 arrived in 2013 as a wristwatch version of the tourbillon pocket watch François-Paul Journe built as a young man in 1983, the piece that begins his story. Ninety-nine were made. Journe rarely creates an entirely new watch for a limited series, and the T30 is one of the few times he has done it, recreating the layout and proportions of that first tourbillon rather than adapting a current model to suit the occasion.

The case is guilloché silver with rose gold, an unusual pairing that gives the watch a soft, antique presence at 40 mm across. The dial is grained silver, its numbers and hour circle engraved and filled. As on the T10, the tourbillon is not shown through the front, so the face reads as a plain two-register layout until the watch is turned over. Part of the F.P. Journe limited series.