FP JOURNE to Open boutique in Paris
[ via F.P. Journe ]
After Tokyo, Hong Kong, Geneva and Boca Raton, F.P. Journe - Invenit et Fecit - will open a prestigious watch boutique-lounge in Paris, world capital of fashion and the arts, on December 8, 2008 at 63 Faubourg St-Honoré, close to the Elysée Palace.
Until recently, number 63 housed the Gallery Pétrides, home for numerous works of art and more importantly Utrillo's representative on the art market. But times change and the premises will now become home to another artist - F.P. Journe - Inventit et Fecit watches: the Chronomètre à Résonance, emblematic realisation of the art of François-Paul Journe, the Tourbillon with constant force device and dead beat seconds, the Grande Sonnerie and other ultra slim Minute Repeater, or the Octa automatic calibre. The boutique will at last but not least present the Black Label line, reserved exclusively for the F.P. Journe boutiques-salons.
This fifth F.P. Journe boutique-lounge was designed entirely by François-Paul Journe and it is in harmony with the concept of his existing boutiques: a salon, a bar and a watch library where collectors and aficionados of haute horlogerie can meet and share their mutual passion. On the wall, large black and white pictures of the Master and his watchmakers at work enable the visitor to enter the unique universe of the brand, and perhaps acquire chronometers manufactured in the grand horological tradition.