Kari Voutilainen

While searching for a new Weekly Watch Photo I saw two photos appear on a friend's Facebook page. It looked like photos of Kari Voutilainen's Vingt-8 wristwatch, but a little bit different...

While the Voutilainen Vingt-8 wristwatch features a small subsidiary seconds hand at the 6...
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An uncommon Voutilainen OBSERVATOIRE

One of the things that appeals to many people about independent watchmakers is that there’s often a story, a narrative, behind the watchmaker and his or her watch which gives an added personal dimension to each timepiece. Kari Voutilainen’s modern classic, the Observatoire, has such a story.
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Kari Voutilainen created a gorgeous minute repeater, based on a client’s desire for an exceptional and personalized timepiece. This is not the first repeater coming from Atelier Voutilainen. Minute Repeater 10 is made according to the desires of a client, one of those superb possibilities for bespoke timepieces that artisan watchmakers (or small independent...
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Many watch enthusiasts have been waiting for this moment. Kari Voutilainen releases the Twenty-8 with his new in-house developed and in-house manufactured movement, calibre 28. Kari Voutlainen decided to design his own new movement, calibre 28, and the movements are also manufactured in-house. When I visited Kari Voutilainen last summer he showed me around...
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Monochrome’s Tour de Suisse continues with more visits and meeting with the finest independent watchmakers. Kari Voutilainen, De Bethune, MB&F, Hautlence, URWERK, Ladoire and MCT Watches. And interesting mix of classical watchmaking and steampunk design. In the following weeks I’ll write much more about these visits, so stay tuned. Visiting Kari Voutilainen was on...
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From Saturday 21th of August until Thursday the 26th I’m going to Switzerland visiting many independent watchmakers. And of course you can read all about the meetings and news the watchmakers want to share, here on Monochrome. Worldwide there are a few dozen of independent watchmakers who really make extraordinary watches, at least in...
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