{"id":56550,"date":"2024-12-21T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/f-p-journe-elegante-48-titalyt-watch-hands-on\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:24:29","slug":"f-p-journe-elegante-48-titalyt-watch-hands-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/f-p-journe-elegante-48-titalyt-watch-hands-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The F.P.Journe \u00e9l\u00e9gante 48 Titalyt\u00ae watch hands-on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intro<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe that such a master watchmaker, a rare and contemporary combination of Breguet and Daniels, is the man who introduced quartz to high-end watchmaking<\/strong>. F.P.Journe is universally recognised for his ingenuity, making a classic timepiece great again and as commercially appealing as a steel sports watch. Its watches\u2019 prowess and decoration are so distinctive that they have grown an endless waiting list of enthusiasts eager to secure one of its masterpieces sooner or later.<\/p>\n

Since 2014, when the \u00e9l\u00e9gante hit the market, he has introduced the cheapest technology into premium luxury<\/strong>, achieving what most brands, namely Japanese luxury ones, still have not on a global scale.<\/p>\n

Why did F.P.Journe conceive the \u00e9l\u00e9gante?<\/h2>\n

Why did a multiple award-winning master watchmaker embark on an eight-year project to create a quartz watch<\/strong>? It all began with a business trip to the Middle East, where he met and spoke to women about their experiences with watches. The outcome was not nearly what the mainstream told us for decades. Women choose quartz over mechanical<\/strong> but are concerned about the short battery life.<\/p>\n

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Francois-Paul Journe thus decided to approach Quartz the Journe way. He discarded the ordinary to avoid making the umpteenth quartz watch, instead opting for the F.P.Journe of luxury quartz watches<\/strong>. He adopted the same challenging and dedicated approach as any mechanical watch.<\/p>\n

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Back in Geneva (2005), he began scouting partners and found EPFL<\/strong> (Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale Lausanne) as the privileged technical partner to develop the brand\u2019s first electromechanical watch<\/strong>, boasting an efficiency as high as never before in the industry. The outcome is a movement capable of efficiently managing a high-capacity battery, which adopts a \u201csnooze\u201d<\/em> function after 30-35 minutes off the wrist to save as much energy as possible and a quick start once on the wrist again.<\/p>\n

The case<\/h3>\n

Packing such technology is a Tortue-shaped case you won\u2019t expect from the custodian of classicism and a round-cased timepiece yet driven by technological pursuit<\/strong>. At first glance, the original 40 x 35 mm, 7.35 mm thick flat titanium case brings me some\u00a0 Cartier Tortue vibes in a technological and edgy attire.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I feel<\/strong> when spotting an \u00e9l\u00e9gante from afar. Since then, the \u00e9l\u00e9gante has evolved to 48 x 40 mm (7.95 mm thick) of the model pictured here to please a wider audience of men.<\/p>\n