 Journe also owns its own casemaker, Les Boîtiers de Genève, and its own dialmaker, Les Cadraniers de Genève, housed in the same facility in Meyrin, a municipality in the Canton of Geneva.The company's motto, "Invenit et Fecit" (Latin for "[He] invented it and made it"), denotes that the company designs and builds the entirety of the watch movements.François-Paul Journe was born in Marseille in 1957.