F.P. Journe is a high-end watch manufacture of Switzerland named after the founder François-Paul Journe. (French watchmaker who was born in Marseille in 1959. An unruly child, he was sent to a local technical college at the age of 14. He went on to graduate from the Paris watchmaking school in 1976). The motto of the brand, Invenit et Fecit (Latin for "[He] invented it and made it") denotes that the company builds the entirety of the watches. Journe often designs brand new movements, even inventing completely new systems, like the resonance chronometer.
