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F. P. Journe
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F. P. Journe, legally Montres Journe SA, is a Swiss[1] high-end watch Manufacture d'horlogerie founded in 1999, June 27th by François-Paul Journe. The only three-time winner of the Aiguille d'Or grand prize from the Fondation du Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève,[2] Journe focuses on complex precision chronometers[3] with a production of around 800 watches per year.[4] 20% of the company was acquired by Chanel in 2018 for an undisclosed amount.[5]
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Company type | Private (SA) |
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Industry | Designer watchmaking |
Founded | Geneva, Switzerland 1999; 25 years ago (1999) |
Founders | François-Paul Journe |
Headquarters | , Switzerland |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | luxury watches |
Production output | 900-1000 pieces (2023) |
Number of employees | 150-200 |
Website | www |
F.P.Journe is the only watchmaker still based in central Geneva,[6] with company headquarters, manufacturing facilities, and an exhibition space with library housed in a converted gaslamp factory in the Coulouvrenière Rois neighborhood.[7][8][9] F.P. Journe also owns its own casemaker, Les Boîtiers de Genève, and its own dialmaker, Les Cadraniers de Genève, housed in the same facility in Meyrin,[10] a municipality in the Canton of Geneva.
The company's motto, Invenit et Fecit (Latin for "[He] invented it and made it"), denotes that the company designs and builds the entirety of the watch movements.[4][11][12]