Warm dial, warm case. The rose gold Havana is the version where nothing on the watch pushes back, and whether that is the point or the problem depends entirely on taste. Havana is the brown guilloche dial Journe introduced on the Chronometre Souverain and then applied across several references; it is part of the permanent collection but sold only through the boutiques. On the Automatique Lune it changes the balance of a face that already carries a moon and a large date, since brown is dark enough to make both apertures read as openings. The hands are finished ivory rather than blued, which is specific to this dial and would look wrong on any other. The case comes at 40 or 42 mm, everything behind the dial is the standard current watch, and it has been in the range for several years now.
An 18K 6N gold case at 40 or 42 mm and 10.7 mm deep, polished, with the same knurled crown the whole family uses. Against that case the Havana dial reads as a continuation rather than a contrast, which is the opposite of what happens in platinum. The dial itself is solid silver, guilloche worked with a Clous de Paris pattern at the middle and a railroad minute track around the edge, and the brown finish sits on top of a cut surface rather than on a flat one, so the pattern is visible through the color and moves with the light. Printed numerals in the serif figures the house has always used run around the outside. The date opens at the top through a window wide enough for two discs, and the moon sits low on the left behind a sapphire disc that gives the impression of depth. The small seconds sit at half past four, below the middle of the dial. Ivory-toned steel hands cross the whole face and are the only element that is neither brown nor gold. A brown alligator strap is the standard fitting and a gold bracelet was offered as well, though it is seen far less often on this dial. Both diameters use the same dial drawing, so the extra two millimeters on the larger case appear as a wider band of brown at the perimeter rather than as bigger indications.
Nothing was changed under the dial for the Havana execution, which is the pattern for every dial variation this house makes. The winding is automatic, through a 22K gold rotor mounted off to one side and running in a single direction on a ball bearing arrangement that locks itself, an approach chosen so that small movements are captured rather than lost. Placing the rotor off center leaves most of the movement visible through the back. The date is instantaneous, carried on two discs, and the moon advances one step with it at midnight. The seconds run continuously in their own counter. All of it is corrected from the crown, in different positions, with no correctors set into the lugs and no pushers interrupting the caseband. Journe has held to that across the collection for twenty years and it is the reason his calendar watches are handled without instructions. On a moon phase in particular it means the only occasional task is resetting the moon after the watch has been left alone for a long stretch, which most owners will do once or twice a year at most. The date needs nothing at all, since an instantaneous jump either happens or it does not and there is no window in which the discs sit half way between two numbers. That is the practical difference between a Journe calendar and most others, and it is more noticeable in daily use than any of the finishing.
Color is a late arrival in this collection and it has changed how the range is bought. The Chronometre Bleu showed what a single color could do to a familiar watch, and everything since, including the blue boutique dials, the Havana browns and the various dark plates, follows from that lesson. Havana is the warmest of them and the only one that reads as a natural material rather than as a pigment, which is presumably why the name refers to tobacco. It began on the time-only Chronometre Souverain, where a plain layout gave the color room, and moved onto the more complicated references afterwards. The Automatique Lune is the busiest dial it has reached. In rose gold the combination is the most conventional of the Havana executions, since warm on warm is a familiar dress watch idea, and it is also the one that separates itself least from a distance. Distribution is through the boutiques only, with no declared edition size, so the numbers follow the shop network rather than a stated figure. That arrangement is easy to underestimate. An edition of a hundred pieces is a known quantity that can be tracked; a dial available only in the brand's own shops, for as long as the brand chooses to make it, is not, and the population only becomes clear years after the execution stops.
This is a watch for someone who has already decided that a brown dial is not a novelty. In rose gold it is the softer of the two Havana executions and the more wearable one, since there is nothing cold on it to argue with the dial, and it suits a wardrobe that runs to brown rather than to black. The 40 mm case reads as a classical dress watch and the 42 mm as a modern one, and on a warm dial the larger size shows more of the guilloche. Because the reference is current the practical questions are availability and configuration rather than condition. Anyone weighing it against the platinum Havana should see both, since the same dial behaves differently against a cold case and the choice is not obvious from photographs. The ivory hands are worth a close look, since they are the detail that makes the dial work.
