F.P. Journe Chronomètre Souverain Ref. CS 38mm Steel Set Limited Series Stainless Steel Yellow Dial

Journe put five of his core models into steel cases at 38 mm and sold them only as a complete set, which is not something the industry does. Steel had never been a catalogue material for him outside the chiming watches, and the small case brought the whole collection back to the size the earliest pieces wore. The dials were given a bronze patina found nowhere else in the range at all, before that series or since it closed.

The steel case measures 38 mm, noticeably smaller than the current collection and closer to the first Journe watches than anything else available. The dial is silver under a bronze patina, laid against whitened guilloché silver. Steel and a warm patinated surface is a combination he has not used before or since, and it makes the set instantly identifiable. Complete sets almost never come apart, so single watches are rare.