Auctions: F.P. Journe Reveals Why He Paid More Than $6 Million For A Breguet Clock He Designed – To Showcase In His Upcoming Museum

Auctions: F.P. Journe Reveals Why He Paid More Than $6 Million For A Breguet Clock He Designed – To Showcase In His Upcoming Museum

François-Paul Journe would not be denied. Several other bidders were willing to pay millions for the Breguet Pendule Sympathique No. 1 at the Phillips auction in Geneva this month. But it's unlikely they knew the 18-karat-yellow gold clock and its companion wristwatch quite as well as Journe. It was, after all, the sexagenarian Frenchman and his colleagues at Techniques Horlogères Appliquées (THA) who had been commissioned by Breguet to design a…