- Movement
- Self-winding
- Size
- 40 mm
Overview
Time zones by the hour
The F.P. Journe UTC Black Label in platinum, 40 mm and 10.6 mm high, with a blackened gold and whitened guilloché silver dial, a painted world map on sapphire, and blued, 5N gilt and rhodium-plated steel hands. Self-winding calibre 1300.3 with off-centre local time, 24-hour home time and large date.
The Black Label UTC is a 40 mm platinum case with a blackened gold and whitened guilloché silver dial, the world-map disc, and rhodium-plated steel beside the blued and 5N gilt hands. F.P. Journe gives its production as 2011 to 2015 and describes the Black Label collection as a platinum, black-dial line available only to owners of an F.P. Journe watch and sold only in its boutiques and Espaces.
F.P. Journe built the UTC around the modern division of the world into full-hour time zones. The brand sets it against Greenwich Mean Time, the solar reference adopted as official time throughout Great Britain in 1880 and replaced in 1972 by Coordinated Universal Time, which rests on atomic time. A patented mechanism shows local time, home time and the difference between summer and winter hour.
Local time is shown by the blued hands on an off-centre dial, and the calendar is linked to them, so the date is that of the wearer's current location. Home time is read on a 24-hour scale by a 5N gilt steel hand. At 7:30 a sapphire disc carries a laser-engraved and painted map of the earth divided into time zones, turned by a secured pusher at 4 o'clock. The movement is the Octa automatic calibre 1300.3 in 18K rose gold, with a retrograde reserve at 9 o'clock on a 120-hour scale.
For collectors
The date is tied to local time, not home time, so it follows the wearer across time zones. The calendar does not follow the length of the month: F.P. Journe states that the passage between months of 28 to 31 days is made by hand.
Key details
Design and engineering
- Full-hour time zonesIn crown position 2, turning clockwise corrects the time zone in full hours and turning anti-clockwise corrects the date; position 3 sets the time. The date jumps instantly.
- Home time on 24 hoursThe 5N gilt steel hand shows home time on a 24-hour scale, standing for the earth's 24 time zones, so day and night at home can be read at a glance.
- World-map discA sapphire disc at 7:30, laser engraved and painted with the earth divided into time zones, turned by a secured correction pusher at 4 o'clock.
- Octa automaticCalibre 1300.3 in 18K rose gold, wound in one direction by an off-centre 22K gold rotor. Free-sprung balance with four adjustable inertia weights and a flat Anachron spring; 15-tooth escapement.
- FinishingCircular Côtes de Genève on the 18K gold bridges, circular graining on the base plate, chamfered and circular-grained wheels, polished screw heads with chamfered slots.
Calibre 1300.3
- Automatic winding, uni-directional, off-centre 22K gold guilloché rotor
- 18K rose gold (4N)
- 21,600 vibrations per hour (3 Hz)
- Autonomy 160 ± 10 hours; reserve indicator scaled to 120 hours
- Amplitude dial-up 280° at 12 hours, 220° at 90 hours
- 30.80 mm overall diameter, 5.80 mm high
The reference
Technical specifications
| Reference | UTC |
|---|---|
| Collection | Black Label |
| Calibre | Calibre 1300.3 |
| Movement | Self-winding |
| Functions | Off centre hours and minutes, Off centre timezones, Small second at 4h30, Earth dial divided in timezones at 7h30, Winter summer hour, Large date, Power reserve at 9h |
| Case dimensions | 40 mm |
| Case thickness | 10.6 mm |
| Case material | Platinum |
| Dial | blackened Gold and whitened guilloché Silver, laser engraved and painted world map on sapphire disc |
| Hands | blued Steel, 5N gilt Steel, rhodium plated Steel |
| Power reserve | 160 ± 10 hours |
| Frequency | 21'600 Alt/h, 3 Hz |
| Distribution | Black Label collection: available only to owners of an F.P. Journe watch, in F.P. Journe boutiques and Espaces. |
| Status | No longer in the current collection |
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