F.P. Journe Octa Automatique Réserve Havana Ref. AR Octa Platinum Havana Dial

A platinum bracelet on a Journe is rare enough on its own, and pairing one with the Havana dial makes this about as unusual as the Octa Automatique Réserve gets. Cold metal all the way around the wrist, warm brown on the face. The house has never made many bracelets, and fewer still in platinum, which is why this configuration surfaces so rarely on the market. Anyone who wants one is generally waiting on a single example to change hands.

Platinum at 40 mm on a matching platinum bracelet, which adds serious weight to a watch that was already dense. The Havana guilloché silver dial carries the off-center time subdial, a large date and small seconds. Brown against a full platinum bracelet is a combination that appears almost nowhere else in the Octa family. On the wrist it is easily the heaviest thing Journe has ever put on a bracelet.