F.P. Journe Creates the World’s First Mechanical Watch with Jumping Seconds

Although SIHH dominates the watch headlines every year around this time, not every bit of news coming out of Geneva has ties to the show. While the Richemont brands and a handful of invited independents graced the halls of the annual show, companies like F.P. Journe (and several others) welcomed the press and a select group of retailers and collectors to behold their latest creations. We have already shown you some of the most technically awe inspiring pieces to surface at SIHH so far, but this new release from Journe is equally worthy of significant attention.

The Vagabondage began as a series of tonneau cased watches designed with intriguing means of digital time display. In 2006, Vagabondage I used a jumping hours indication on a revolving disk, where a frame surrounded the current hour as it traveled its way around a minute track. Vagabondage II followed suit in 2010, using both jumping hours and minutes regulated by a constant force escapement to display time digitally with running seconds at the 6 o’clock mark.

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