• cal. 1506 manual winding 18k pink gold movement with nickel lever escapement, 50 jewels, mono-metallic balance • red dial, Arabic numerals, 3 subsidiary guilloché black dials for 100th of a second, 20 second and 10 minute registers • platinum circular case, patented ergonomic chronograph button to the band between 2 & 3 o'clock, sapphire crystal display back secured by six screws • case, dial and movement signed • with a platinum F.P. Journe bracelet with twin folding clasp

The movement is running at the time of cataloguing, however it might benefit from a service soon. Dial in excellent condition. Case with small scuffs from wear, more noticeanle scuffs and scratches to the bracelet and clasp. Centigraphe Souverain : The hand-wound movement measures elapsed times from one hundredth of a second to 10 minutes on three dials. The flying seconds dial at 10 o'clock goes around in one second on a scale marked in hundredths of a second, making it theoretically possible to time an object moving at 360,000 km/h, or approximately 1/3000ths of the speed of light. One ingenious feature of the flying-seconds hand is that it can be stopped anywhere along its one-second journey around its dial, even between two 100th-second divisions, enabling an approximate fractional reading. On the dial at 2 o'clock, the hand revolves in 20 seconds around a time scale divided into seconds. The chronograph is started, stopped and zeroed by a rocker at 2 o'clock in the case band instead of the usual buttons on either side of the crown. This ergonomic solution has been patented.
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With a Certificate of Authenticity card, one spare link, Instruction Manual and a presentation box with outer packaging.

In 2008, François-Paul Journe won the Golden Hand Award of the Geneva watchmaking Grand Prix with his Centigraph. This was the third time Journe, had taken the top prize in Geneva's watch Olympics since he opened his own shop, F.P. Journe, in 2000.
Today, the Centigraph has been described as a unique creation. Indeed, the mechanical movement indicates elapsed time from a 100^th of second to 10 minute, visible on three dials. A patent was granted to protect its ingenious mechanism which effectively isolates the chronograph from the timekeeping function meaning the balance is unaffected when the chronograph is running.
Being a mechanical wonder, the Centigraph has an atypical Godfather: Jean Todt, former executive director of Scuderia Ferrari, the Ferrari company's Formula One constructor. Journe met Todt through the ICM Foundation (Institute of medical research to help fight brain and spinal cord diseases), and during the course of their meetings discussed the ideal chronograph for the world of car racing. Journe said “there was nothing serious enough in mechanical horology to time today’s racing cars to the 100th of a second.” After three years working on his idea he finally presented the Centigraphe Souverain, giving Jean Todt all the credit having inspired the concept to him.
According to our research, this watch is one of the four examples ever produced with this unusual dial configuration. Celebrating this significant collaboration with Jean Todt, F.P. Journe used a small sample of Ferrari paint to create the special set of Centigraphe 'Rosso Corsa’ dials and the ‘Fly Yellow’ paint (used in the famous Ferrari logo) for the hands.