The present Octa Jour/Nuit is fresh to the market, from the original owner and number 84 of a limited edition of 99 pieces. One of five watches part of the F.P. Journe “Ruthenium Collection”

Made between 2001 and 2005 the watches in the Ruthenium collection bookend the brass movement production and the move to 18K pink gold movements now in use throughout Journe’s watches. The Ruthenium Collection comprises five models: the Octa Jour/Nuit (Night/Day) - the present watch, the Octa Calendrier, the Octa Chronographe, the Chronomètre à Résonance, and the Tourbillon Souverain.

Each model was released in only 99 examples and are some of the most highly coveted, early Journe timepieces. Stylistically, the Ruthenium Collection, with their larger, 40 mm case diameter, close the door on the early brass movement pieces, and ushered in the more modern iterations that have drawn admirers of Journe’s craft year after year. The models featured brass movements but coated in light-absorbing ruthenium. Similarly, the white gold dials are specially coated with the same ruthenium, yet the remarkable sheen and luster found in Journe’s earliest dials is preserved.

The Octa Jour/Nuit was introduced in 2002 in this collection and combines the day and night indication with the Octa movement and has only ever been available within this unique collection making it an extremely rare model withing the Journe collection.