F.P. Journe Octa UTC Ref. UTC Octa Platinum Salmon Dial

Rose gold under platinum warms the map rather than the case, and on a dial this busy that changes how quickly the eye finds the time. Off center hours and minutes on the right, a small seconds beside them, a large date, and the Earth in the lower left: the UTC carries more information than anything else in the Octa line. It was built between 2011 and 2018 and never returned to the catalogue after that.

Platinum, at 38 or 40 mm, laid over an 18K 6N gold dial plate. The engraved Earth is painted by hand and sits beneath a sapphire disc that carries the twenty four zone markings. A pusher on the caseband rotates the globe so the home zone comes into position, and the gilt hand follows it round. Local time stays on the blued hands throughout, and the shorter months are corrected by hand.