F.P. Journe | Centigraphe Souverain Rose Gold

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Mechanical watches and race cars have had a long and a glorious history together. While the cars would race on track, there was a race within the mechanical watch industry to produce, precise, high-frequency chronograph movements to time the races.
With the technology taking over, the manually operated chronographs became obsolete, reducing the chronograph complication mechanical watches to a mere aesthetic function in the watch.

The cars got faster but the further development of the chronograph complication was never paid attention to.
In 2004, a meeting between François-Paul Journe and Jean Todt of Scuderia Ferrari lead to a discussion of how the mechanical watch industry was lagging behind when it came to timing today’s fast cars, to a 100th of a second.

Hence in 2006, began the work on Calibre 1506 and the legendary Centigraphe was presented for the first time in 2007. The chronograph is capable of timing the speeds up to 36,000kmph.

In 2008, the Centigraphe Souverain went on to winning the prestigious ‘L’Aiguille d’Or’ (The Golden Hand) award at the GPHG.
Across its 10-yr life span between 2008-2018, the Centigraphe has been produced in limited quantities in metals including rose gold and platinum, and a few special dial variants.