Watchmakers have always used the same type of repeating mechanism. Mechanisms which strike initially the hours then the quarters and then the minutes. A set up which does not allow an easy location when listening at the repeating mechanism. It is this problem which initiated Kari Voutilainen’s thinking in order to develop a new construction able to strike the time like it is read.

He has devised a repeating mechanism which sounds the hours, the ten-minute interval and then the exact minutes. This unusual and extraordinary watch is the first repeater of this kind. In Kari Voutilainen’s philosophy a repeater should ring loudly and have a crystal clear sound. It is for these reasons that he has approached one of the master casemakers who still posseses the knowledge and employs the traditional methods used since the eighteenth century.