You see that little window at around four o’clock? Looks like there’s a little rotor in there, like for winding the movement, but instead it’s a motion sensor. Here’s the video of the Élégante’s power saver saving power and watchfinder’s explanation: Journe’s Élégante’s unique selling point, its raison d’etre. You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a miniature tourbillon – which would only be marginally less useful than it is on a mechanical watch (if you know what I mean). Journe’s entire dial lights up! Just like a $79 Timex Reader! With none of those astounding Grand Seiko-style Zaratsu polished applied indices diminishing the effect.Īt this point, you may have noticed the jigsaw piece missing between the 4 and 5 indices. Grand Seiko’s quartz watches may have a technological edge over the Élégante, but the battery powered Japanese watches have zero lume. Journe’s Élégante doesn’t offer any of that. Who also provide instant date change, a twin pulse control motor (to push heavy hands around without losing power), a hidden accuracy adjuster and a wall between the gear train and the battery (to prevent dust contamination during a battery change). They test suitable examples for temperature fluctuations, then match them with an integrated circuit that works with the specific properties of a specific crystal. After three months, they select the most stable crystals. Journe grows and ages their own quartz crystals. There’s got to be something that justifies paying $13k for a watch with the same movement as a $20 Prestige Medical Student Scrub Watch. And we all know that battery-powered watches are far less expensive to manufacture than anything with gears and springs and lots of fiddly metal bits that have to work in perfect harmony for a very long time. There’s no getting around the fact that the Élégante is a quartz watch. Luckily, has an Élégante for sale at $22k, “worn fewer than 6 times.” Yes but. Well it might be if you could buy one at msrp. So, really, the $13k quartz Élégante is an entry-level bargain. Journe Souscription Tourbillon, Chronomètre À Résonance hammered for $2.5 Million. At the Phillips Watch Auction XI, an F.P. Rare F.P.’s command significant premiums. Journe creates, which escalate from that relatively modest sum to well over $150k. Ī sells a garden variety Chonometre Blue Calibre 1304 for $44,788.43. Which cost well, the website doesn’t tell you. That doesn’t cost nearly as much as other F. Watchfinder sent me an email the other day explaining why a quartz watch by the name of F.

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