F.P. Journe Octa Réserve De Marche Ref. A Brass Platinum Yellow Dial

Yellow gold is the fourth of the plate options on the original Octa and the one that turns up least often. Against platinum it reads warmer than rose gold does, which sounds wrong until the watch is in front of you. Everything else is standard for the period, the 38 mm case, the brass movement, and the name the model carried before Journe shortened it. Four plate metals were offered and this is the rarest.

The platinum case is 38 mm. A yellow gold plate carries whitened guilloché silver registers, the hours and minutes off center, a large date at the upper right and small seconds below them. Yellow against platinum is the strongest contrast the reference offers, and the reason these examples get picked out of a tray first. The Octa has never worn anything louder than this dial, in any generation of the model.