- Size
- 45.2 × 37.5 mm
- Edition
- One of 69 pieces in platinum, produced between 2016 and 2019.
Overview
Digital hours and seconds
The F.P. Journe Vagabondage III, reference VIII, in platinum, the Flat Tortue case 45.2 × 37.5 mm and 7.84 mm high, on a leather strap with platinum folding clasp; smoked sapphire dial with 18K white gold apertures, blued and ivory-coloured steel hands. Manually wound calibre 1514: jumping hours and seconds.
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 |
| Notes | Limited Series of 69 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 |
| Edition | One of 69 pieces in platinum, produced between 2016 and 2019. |
| Status | No longer in the current collection |
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