Description

This timepiece is to mark the opening of the 10th boutique in Beyrouth of F.P. Journe. Therefore he, Mr Journe, chooses the mythical city name of Byblos, who was the cradle of the Euro-Mediterranean civilisation and an old and important port, to name his new chronometer!

The tantalum case reveals the sun on this semi-skeleton dial. Let us explain : the cut on the blue dial to reveal the gorgeous gold movement represents the sun of the orient set in a Mediterranean blue sky. Another tribute is hidden on the dial, the J in the logo at 12 o’clock is in Phoenician alphabet. What a lovely tribute

The hand-wound movement is visible through both sides and has an amazing hand-work on it. A unique buffalo bracelet will fix this beauty around your wrist.

F.P. Journe – Bio

François-Paul Journe was born in Marseille in 1959. An unruly child, he was sent to a local technical college at the age of 14. He went on to graduate from the Paris watchmaking school in 1976.
In 1982, after five years of work, he finished his tourbillon – and it work !
He founded the F.P. Journe company in 1999, have ever since stunned the world year after year with the visually distinctive and technically innovative watches
The motto of the brand, Invenit et Fecit (Latin for “[He] invented it and made it”) denotes that the company builds the entirety of the watches. Journe often designs brand new movements, even inventing completely new systems, like the famous resonance chronometer.