New watch from Stepan Sarpaneva – an independent watchmaker / designer from Finland. His new watch, the Korona K3 Black Moon, has an exceptional moonphase!
During the second European get-to-gether (GTG) in Oldenzaal, a new Dutch brand Gronefeld was released. I also met Stepan Sarpaneva, an independent watchmaker from Finland. With a beer in one hand and a pen in the other hand i tried making notes of my conversation with Stepan Sarpaneva.
During this conversation Sarpaneva told me so much about his live, about Finland and how he decided to start his own watch brand. After learning the first skills of watchmaking at the Finnish School of Watchmaking, which is well known in the watchmaking world, he moved to Switzerland to learn more. There Sarpaneva attended several watchmaking schools again and worked for well known brands and watchmakers like Piaget, Michael Parmigianni (together with Kari Voutilainen), Vianney Halter and Christophe Claret. During the years working for these high-end brands and working together with some of the most famous watchmakers, Sarpaneva learned the skills of watchmaking in every detail.
S.U.F. Komentaja
When he moved back to Finland he was already convinced to make his own watches. He started under the name SarpanevaUhrenFabrik (S.U.F.) and created several models equipped with ETA movements. One of the models of the S.U.F. is the Komentaja. The Komentaja is a 40mm watch with militairy style dial and comes in either a steel case or black DLC case (extremely though black diamond coating).
But i’m drifting off… the reason for this post is not the Komentaja, but Stepan Sarpaneva’s newest watch. Sarpaneva offers several models under the name Sarpaneva and one of the available series is called Korona. The Korona series offers the K1, K2 and K3 Moonphase. The Korona series are all equipped with a Soprod caliber A10, which is modified by Sarpaneva. Caliber A10 is Soprod’s equivallent of the ETA 2892 or 2824. According to Stepan the movement has proven it’s reliability during the past years. Personally i think the movement also looks much better than the ETA calibers.
The newest creation is the K3 Black Moon limited edition, which was released during the Black Moon Ceremony. Click on the link to see loads of photos of the Ceremony and watches of Stepan Sarpaneva. Here’s a photo of Stepan Sarpaneva with his beautiful new K3 Black Moon.
Stepan Sarpaneva with his K3 Black Moon Limited Edition
A full story about Stepan Sarpaneva and his watch will appear on Perpetuelle.com soon.
If you’re going to Baselworld, make sure to visit Stepan Sarpaneva at booth C.01 in hall 5.1.
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