F.P. Journe Octa Réserve De Marche Ref. A Octa Rose Gold Salmon Dial

Rose gold case, rose gold bracelet, rose gold dial plate: the first Octa in one continuous metal. Journe made few gold bracelets in this period, so most examples of the founding model went out on leather instead. That makes a complete gold set the harder configuration to assemble now, and the heaviest to wear. The model itself is the one that started the automatic line in 2001 and stayed in the catalogue for well over a decade.

The case runs 38 or 40 mm in 18K 6N gold and 10.6 mm deep, with a bracelet cut from the same alloy. The dial plate matches the case, so the only break in tone is the whitened guilloché silver disc holding the hours, the minutes and the small seconds off to the right. The large date sits opposite it, and blued steel hands cross all of that warm gold.