- Case
- Platinum Flat Tortue® case set with 56 baguette diamonds ~ 6.55 carats
- Size
- 45.2 × 37.5 mm
- Edition
- One of 10 pieces in the platinum jewellery version, set with baguette diamonds.
Overview
Digital hours and seconds
The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III, reference VIII, in platinum set with 56 baguette diamonds (about 6.55 carats), the Flat Tortue case 45.2 × 37.5 mm and 7.84 mm high, with the smoked sapphire dial and white gold apertures, on a platinum folding clasp set with 18 baguette diamonds. Manually wound calibre 1514.
Vagabondage III, produced between 2016 and 2019, is the third and last edition of the series: 69 pieces in platinum, 68 in 18K 6N gold and 10 in a platinum jewellery version. F.P. Journe says it is the only manufacture to design and produce a calibre specifically for a series of 147 pieces. With it the three digital displays were complete: hours on Vagabondage I, jumping hours and minutes on Vagabondage II, jumping hours and seconds here. Owners of Vagabondage I and II had priority to buy it with the same series number.
The case is the Flat Tortue of Vagabondage II, at the same size. A window at 10 o'clock shows the hour as a numeral and a window at 6 o'clock the seconds, both framed in white; the minutes are read by a central white hand and the power reserve at 1 o'clock by a blued steel hand. Behind the unsigned smoked sapphire dial, framed by an outer dial with screwed elements, is calibre 1514 in 18K rose gold, hand-wound, with a remontoir d'égalité that advances the time train once a second.
For collectors
The jumping digital seconds, which F.P. Journe presents as a world first, are why the calibre exists: they depend on its patented one-second constant-force device, which releases the train in one-second steps so the seconds numeral can jump once a second.
Key details
Design and engineering
- One-second remontoirA patented constant-force device (EP 1528443) rearms every second and advances the time train in one-second steps, which is what lets the seconds appear as a jumping numeral.
- Hours and seconds in windowsThe hour at 10 o'clock and the seconds at 6 o'clock are numerals in white-framed apertures; the minutes and the reserve keep hands.
- Free-sprung balanceFour inertia weights and a flat Anachron microflamed spring laser-welded to its collet with Nivatronic; amplitude 250° dial-up both at full wind and after 24 hours.
- Flat Tortue case45.2 × 37.5 mm and 7.84 mm high, in platinum or 18K 6N gold, on a folding clasp in the case metal.
Calibre 1514
- Manual winding, 18K rose gold, 32 jewels
- One-second constant-force device, patent EP 1528443
- 21,600 vibrations per hour (3 Hz)
- Autonomy 30 ± 2 hours
- 29.3 × 28.2 mm overall, 5.20 mm high, 249 parts
The reference
Technical specifications
| Reference | VIII |
|---|---|
| Collection | Limited Series |
| Calibre | Calibre 1514 |
| Case dimensions | 45.2 × 37.5 mm |
| Case thickness | 7.84 mm |
| Case material | Platinum |
| Case | Platinum Flat Tortue® case set with 56 baguette diamonds ~ 6.55 carats |
| Notes | Limited Series of 10 pieces. Jumping hours and seconds by apertures, minutes and power reserve indication by hands, manual winding |
| Dial | smoked sapphire with apertures in 18K white Gold, outer dial screwed Steel elements |
| Hands | blued Steel and ivory color Steel |
| Strap | Leather strap |
| Power reserve | 30 ± 2 hours |
| Frequency | 21'600 Alt/h (3 Hz) |
| Clasp | Platinum folding clasp set with 18 baguette diamonds ~ 0.95 carat |
| Edition | One of 10 pieces in the platinum jewellery version, set with baguette diamonds. |
| Status | No longer in the current collection |
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