Voutilainen Minute Repeater 10 Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Oct 17th 2010 at 12:01PM

Kari Voutilainen is considered one of today's best independent watch makers - and resides in a small club of traditionalists that enjoy mechanics as much as they do finishing movements. I got to see one of these new Voutilainen Minute Repeater 10 watches myself and was impressed. The decor of the exposed movement was breathtaking. The case is actually in steel (not gold as you might presume) and has a beautiful style and curvy gracefulness to it. At 38mm wide, it is certainly "traditional" in size. The part of the dial with out markers on it helps make the watch much more legible, and the blued steel hands with hooped ends are very Voutilainen in style.

As a minute repeater, the functions of the watch including the time is it to repeat the time back to you in audio form when operating the slide lever on the side of the case. Minute repeater complications are highly desired among collectors, and those from high-end independents like Kari Voutilainen are particularly prized due to the long time spend making the movement nice to look at. Overall the piece has enough unique character to it so that it can stand out in the crowd, but also gives traditional style watch collectors a lot of what they want.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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