VOUTILAINEN WATCHES
Voutilainen SA is a luxury watchmaker based at St-Sulpice in Switzerland. It was founded by master watchmaker Kari Voutilainen.
Born in Finland in 1962, Kari Voutilainen completed his initial watchmaker’s training at the world renowned watchmaking school of Tapiola in Finland.
He first came to Switzerland in 1989 to attend the International Watchmaking School, where he completed the WOSTEP complicated watch course, a post graduate course for those watchmakers dedicated to the restoration of complicated, high quality rare watches.
He was quickly spotted by Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps, where over the following ten years he was at the centre of the restoration work of some of the world’s rarest pieces as well as the creation of new and original ‘one-off’ pieces.
Giving back to others much of the fruit of his experience, Kari Voutilainen taught for the next three years at the WOSTEP School of Watchmaking, heading the department of complicated watchmaking. He also undertook the complete training of beginners, and added many new courses to the curriculum that he had devised himself.
He is the first to commend the kind and generous teaching of those master watchmakers who have passed on their ‘centuries old’ watchmaking knowledge. Alongside his professional work, Kari Voutilainen has devoted himself, through many long evenings of tireless work over the last fifteen years, to developing the ultimate perfection of new and unique mechanisms, which are represented in his highly elegant watches.
Following his passion, and in order to preserve this highly prized tradition, Kari Voutilainen established his own business as an independent Artist Watchmaker in the village of Môtiers in 2002.
The dials of Voutilainen watches are made by Comblémine SA at St-Sulpice in the canton of Vaud and watch cases by Voutilainen & Cattin SA in Saignelégier.
The award-winning watches made by VOUTILAINEN are:
- KV20i Reversed: GPHG 2024, Men’s watch prize
- World Timer: GPHG 2023 Men’s watch prize
- JI-KU: GPHG 2022, Artistic Crafts watch prize
- 28SC: GPHG 2020, Men’s watch prize
- Starry Night Vine: GPHG 2019, Artistic Crafts watch prize
- 28ti: GPHG 2019, Men’s watch prize
- AKI-NO-KURE: GPHG 2017, Artistic Crafts watch prize
- Scintillante: Watchfair 2016
- VINGT-8 BGR: Watchfair 2015, Classic watch prize
- GMR: GPHG 2015, Men´s Watch Prize
- HISUI: GPHG 2014, Artistic Crafts watch prize
- V-8R Power Reserve: GPHG 2013, Men’s watch prize
- OBSERVATOIRE: GPHG 2007, Men´s watch prize
