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Lot Essay
F.P. Journe’s UTC - Coordinated Universal Time wristwatch was produced between 2011 and 2018 with a patented system that offers an entirely new take on the dual time zone watch by replacing GMT as the official time with atomic international time.
Its classic Journe styling has a dramatic new addition in the form of a sapphire disc painted with a world map divided into the Earth’s 24 time zones. Mechanically it indicates the different time periods linked with the earth’s geographical positions, indicating summer and winter hours.
The present watch, one of the very few examples to be offered at international auction is presented in superb condition with the full set of accessories.
F.P. Journe Dual Time Zone Watch
The local hours at the user’s actual location are indicated by the blue hands which are linked to the calendar in order to indicate the current geographical time. The gilt steel hand indicates the home time on the 24-hour numeral chapter which is linked to the earth’s 24 time zones represented on the painted globe. The time at the local time zone is set by pulling out the three-position crown to the third position. To set the second time zone, the crown is pulled out by two positions and turned clockwise (anti clockwise to set the date). The globe is adjusted by pushing the small secured pusher in the band at 4 o’clock so that the home time zone is positioned on 0 for winter hours. At the same time, the gold hand automatically adjusts to the corresponding hour of that time zone. The purpose of the +1 / -1 indicators is to change the specific region for summer hours which is linked to the geographical location of the user depending if the location is east or west of the selcted zone.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It was adopted as official time throughout Great Britain in 1880, and then in the entire world for the major part of the 20th century. GMT was replaced in 1972 by UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, due to the inconsistency of average solar time. GMT is based on terrestrial rotation, while UTC on atomic international time. Unlike GMT, UTC offers the current view of time zone division directly linked to the real rotation of the earth, and therefore less variable.
Its classic Journe styling has a dramatic new addition in the form of a sapphire disc painted with a world map divided into the Earth’s 24 time zones. Mechanically it indicates the different time periods linked with the earth’s geographical positions, indicating summer and winter hours.
The present watch, one of the very few examples to be offered at international auction is presented in superb condition with the full set of accessories.
F.P. Journe Dual Time Zone Watch
The local hours at the user’s actual location are indicated by the blue hands which are linked to the calendar in order to indicate the current geographical time. The gilt steel hand indicates the home time on the 24-hour numeral chapter which is linked to the earth’s 24 time zones represented on the painted globe. The time at the local time zone is set by pulling out the three-position crown to the third position. To set the second time zone, the crown is pulled out by two positions and turned clockwise (anti clockwise to set the date). The globe is adjusted by pushing the small secured pusher in the band at 4 o’clock so that the home time zone is positioned on 0 for winter hours. At the same time, the gold hand automatically adjusts to the corresponding hour of that time zone. The purpose of the +1 / -1 indicators is to change the specific region for summer hours which is linked to the geographical location of the user depending if the location is east or west of the selcted zone.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It was adopted as official time throughout Great Britain in 1880, and then in the entire world for the major part of the 20th century. GMT was replaced in 1972 by UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, due to the inconsistency of average solar time. GMT is based on terrestrial rotation, while UTC on atomic international time. Unlike GMT, UTC offers the current view of time zone division directly linked to the real rotation of the earth, and therefore less variable.