WatchTime New York is just a week away, and Team WatchTime is steadily growing more and more excited for the 37 brands we?ll be hosting on October 25-26 at Gotham Hall in Manhattan. One of those brands is famed haute horlogerie manufacturer F.P. Journe, and this year the high-end Swiss watchmaker will be presenting its updated Automatique Lune watches from the Octa collection. The Automatique Lune was first introduced in 2007, but in 2019 the Geneva-based company refreshed the interesting moon-phase watches with updated dials, case sizes, and crowns.

The updated models are available at 40-mm and 42-mm sizes, cased in either 18k 6N gold or platinum, and feature F.P. Journe?s distinctive silk-rope motif on their otherwise flat crowns. These sizes are updated from the previous 30.8-mm sizing, and represent a significant shift in the appeal of the handsome models. The dial is available in the brand?s whitened or ?Havana? silver dial, with an outer railroad-track minute ring, blue or gold printed Arabic numerals, and a guilloché center described as ?Clous de Paris.?
Toward the 9 o?clock position is the power-reserve indicator, displaying a scale of 120 hours, while near the 4 o’clock position is the classical seconds subdial with its circular counterweight on the hand. The two other key dial features are the updated moon-phase at the 7:30 mark, now produced in sapphire, and the enlarged date indicator at the 11:30 position. Sweeping over the dial and the off-center F.P....