F.P. Journe Automatique Ref. AN Limited Series Platinum Yellow Gold Yellow Dial

This is the Automatique that marked twenty years of Journe's self-winding line, a run of ninety-nine platinum pieces sold only through the brand's own boutiques. The design looks backward on purpose, borrowing the asymmetric layout of the 2001 Octa Réserve de Marche and a satin yellow gold dial of the kind Journe used on his earliest watches. It is the execution collectors reach for when they want the Octa in something close to its original character.

The platinum case measures 40 mm, with sapphire crystals front and back. Off-centered hours and minutes sit on a guilloché silver subdial laid over the satin yellow gold plate, small seconds intersecting them, with a large date at the upper right. A screwed steel circle frames the hour display, a detail carried over from Journe's first watches. Blued steel hands complete a face the Octa line has not repeated since.