It's easy to tell a Journe watch at a glance--his pieces don't look like anybody else's.
On many models a small timekeeping dial is inset on the right side of the face--it's a Journe hallmark.
The Centigraphe won Journe a Golden Hand Award in 2008, irritating rivals who must wish that Journe would give someone else a chance.
In a way, Journe's life as a watch designer started with his first tourbillon, a pocket watch version that he completed in 1982 when he was 25.
In 2010, Mr. Journe gave a dinner in Daniels's honor.
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If the word artist seems like a stretch for a man who works with springs and screws, just listen to Journe describe his wonderment when a new creation comes to life.
Journe works out of a converted gas lamp factory on the rue de l'Arquebuse in Geneva--he's the only watchmaker in the city center.
Even some of his own people wish he would go a little easier sometimes, but Journe says it's the only way he can protect the integrity of Invenit et Fecit.
The JournE Touch is first in a what Toshiba promises will be a family of such products.
"I like the fact that Journe doesn't duplicate history but uses it to re-create something no one else has, " says Marcel Philippe, a New York prosecutor who fell under Journe's spell.
"Watchmakers spend a lot of time on all fours, " says Journe, who doesn't seem to mind.
Journe moved to Paris and apprenticed with his uncle, who had a business restoring antique clocks and watches.
Journe created this lightweight Octa Sport with 120-hour power reserve and a variable inertia balance wheel for stability even at high speed.
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Journe did the same thing with two autonomous watches humming sympathetically to one another in a 40-millimeter case.
Journe had sold it last year, but now the oil inside was sticking--only a bit, but enough to throw the split-second calibrations slightly off.
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