F.P. Journe Octa Chronographe Ref. C Octa Platinum Salmon Dial

Platinum with a 5N gold plate puts warm metal inside a cold case, which is the reverse of the way most people expect a Journe to be assembled. On the Chronographe it works well because the gold lifts the registers up off the surface without adding any color to the case itself. This was the first watch Journe discontinued in the Octa family, and of the three hundred and thirteen built, only seventy eight carried a gold movement.

Platinum at either 38 or 40 mm, with a dial plate in 18K 5N gold and whitened guilloché silver laid over the top for the time and the running seconds. The flyback chronograph resets and restarts on a single press of the button rather than three, and the date shows large through a pair of concentric discs at the top. Blued steel hands cut cleanly across all the gold beneath them.