Anyone visited the new FP Journe shop in London?

[kaiserphoenix]

Excellent, thank you everyone, and thanks for sharing your experience gusmac. I called the London shop and had a decent chat. I was told pretty much what you said kaiser. I'm going to drop in early new year when I'm in London, hopefully have a bit of a chat about watches, try something on, and see if I can put my name down to buy a CS at some future date. Happy to wait.

Excellent! let us know how you got on. Just to provide some context, my latest FP Journe was a Black Label Chronometre Optimum which took 4 years to arrive and is my 3rd Journe. I really like the brand.

[Corryvreckan]

Excellent! let us know how you got on. Just to provide some context, my latest FP Journe was a Black Label Chronometre Optimum which took 4 years to arrive and is my 3rd Journe. I really like the brand.

Wow, that must be a pretty special watch, very nice! I'll update after a visit.

[djman]

Excellent! let us know how you got on. Just to provide some context, my latest FP Journe was a Black Label Chronometre Optimum which took 4 years to arrive and is my 3rd Journe. I really like the brand.

That’s the point isn’t it. You’ve got an existing relationship with the brand, assuming you bought your previous two watches direct from them and your third watch still took four years to arrive. That makes wait times for sports Pateks positively quick, at least in my experience. Given Journe’s output of only 1,000 watches a year, I guess that makes sense given Patek make 60 times that across their collection.

Personally I’d rather buy grey than wait at least four or five years for a watch, especially given that prices seem to be coming down on these particular models. Perhaps it comes down to how old you are and how much longer you think you’ve got to enjoy them!

[kaiserphoenix]

That’s the point isn’t it. You’ve got an existing relationship with the brand, assuming you bought your previous two watches direct from them and your third watch still took four years to arrive. That makes wait times for sports Pateks positively quick, at least in my experience. Given Journe’s output of only 1,000 watches a year, I guess that makes sense given Patek make 60 times that across their collection.

Personally I’d rather buy grey than wait at least four or five years for a watch, especially given that prices seem to be coming down on these particular models. Perhaps it comes down to how old you are and how much longer you think you’ve got to enjoy them!

It took long because it was a Black Label watch. To be allocated a Black Label Journe, you need 3 previous purchases (was 2 back then), so its not a normal watch to wait for if that makes sense. Many of the other Journes will probably be somewhat quicker for sure. Also buying grey was also not an option for me as the price in the grey market was almost 50% higher than the MSRP I would have paid which made me want to wait instead.