F.P. Journe Octa Lune Ref. L Octa Rose Gold Salmon Dial

Rose gold from end to end, the case, the bracelet and the dial plate alike, which is about as committed to a single metal as the Octa Lune ever gets. Gold bracelets were built in small numbers and rarely survive alongside the watch they came on, so a complete example is worth a good deal more attention than the strap versions are. Underneath all of it is the moon phase that ran through the whole first Octa generation.

The case is 18K 6N gold at 38 or 40 mm, on a bracelet cut from the same gold. Against that, the dial plate is 6N gold too, so only the whitened guilloché silver of the time subdial breaks the tone at all. Small seconds sit inside that same subdial, the large date opens at the top of the dial, and the moon turns low on the left of it. Blued steel hands throughout.