F.P. Journe FFC Ref. FFC Classique Platinum (2026)

Francis Ford Coppola asked Journe in 2012 whether any watchmaker had shown the hours the way the ancients counted them, on the fingers of a hand. Seven years of development work produced a prototype for Only Watch in 2021, and the platinum series version arrived at Watches and Wonders in 2023. Only a small handful leave the workshop each year. Nothing else in the Journe catalogue, or anywhere else in watchmaking, tells the hours this way.

The platinum case is 42 mm wide and 10.7 mm deep, which is no thicker than the automatic models it shares its architecture with. The dial is openworked, and across it lies a titanium hand modeled on a sixteenth century prosthetic designed by the French surgeon Ambroise Paré. Its fingers snap instantly into each new hour, one through to twelve, while the minutes turn on a rotating ring around the edge.