THIS MODEL WAS PRODUCED BETWEEN 2010 AND 2011 (platinum set with diamonds produced on request from 2011 to 2018).

THE LONG-AWAITED LIMITED SERIES FOR COLLECTORS
THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE VAGABONDAGE, “VAGABONDAGE II”, was PRODUCED IN A LIMITED SERIES OF 69 PIECES IN PLATINUM, 68 PIECES IN 18K 6N GOLD and 10 pieces in platinum set with baguette diamonds.

It is essential to retrace the history of this creation, which has made its mark in the watchmaking history and represents the quintessence of anti-marketing. In 2004, for the 30th Anniversary of Antiquorum, François-Paul Journe created a unique piece to be sold at a Geneva charity auction in favour of the ICM, research institute for Brain and Spinal Cord diseases in Paris, www.icm-institute.org . This was an F.P. Journe -Invenit et Fecit- creation indeed, but with an unusual shape. For the first time, the Geneva Manufacture created a watch that was not round, with a flat turtle-shaped case and a dial without the F.P. Journe signature.

Following that charity auction, for which 3 pieces were produced - one in rose Gold, one in white Gold and one in yellow Gold, which sold for three times their value - a limited series of 69 pieces in Platinum was launched with an 18K rose Gold movement. This series was sold without promotion or publicity of any kind, and without any picture. Collectors went wild for it. A legend was born.

This second edition presents a manually-wound movement and an original digital time display, with small seconds at 6 and power reserve at 12. The 18K rose Gold movement is visible through the dial in smoked sapphire crystal, also without the F.P. Journe signature.

The 69 pieces in Platinum feature white Gold windows with blue hands, while the 68 pieces in 18K 6N Gold have Gold windows and hands. Owners of a Vagabondage I have been given priority for the purchase of an identical limited number from the Vagabondage II series.

The name «Vagabondage» has been given to this model as time indication is made by a wandering original digital display and its flat turtle-shaped case different from usual round cases very dear to the brand.