Okari Voutilainen makes a few of the greatest guilloché dials on the planet.
With three completely different manually-applied guilloché patterns adorning the blue dial, the Voutilainen 28CG Platinum isn’t any exception.
Voutilainen’s signature open-tipped gold and blued metal hour and minute fingers, open-counterweighted small seconds hand, and white gold utilized Arabic numerals point out hours, minutes, and seconds, luxuriously.
Delivered in a 950 platinum case that measures 37 mm in diameter, with a concave fastened bezel, and extra of Voutilainen’s famend hand guilloché-work adorning the case flanks. Each angle, each side, is crafted with artisanal — not machine-made — perfection.
Even the large-diameter, flat, ridged 950 platinum crown is rendered with an intricate engraving that immediately communicates: this timepiece is not only a mechanical timekeeper, but in addition a creative masterpiece.
Flip the Voutilainen 28CG Platinum over, and also you’ll see what they name it: Haute horology. That is no outsourced workhorse; it’s one of the crucial aesthetically pleasing hand-finished three-hand actions available on the market. The 30 mm manually wound in-house Voutilainen caliber is exactly tailor-made to suit the case, with no gaps. The mainplate and bridges are manufactured from luscious German silver and are expertly hand-decorated. From striping to perlage to anglage to sharpening of each screw head and jewel sink, and snailed mainspring barrel, this three-hand motion is a testomony to Swiss excellence.
Beating at 3Hz, the 2 escapement wheels with direct impulse (which require much less power than a Swiss lever escapement), a beautiful hand-polished conical traversing steadiness bridge, supporting the huge 13.5 mm steadiness wheel, with a free sprung design that features rose gold timing weights, this 21-jewel, 159-component, 65-hour energy reserve timekeeper, is as sophisticated as it’s easy.
The outside of the steadiness spring contains a typical Phillips overcoil, and the inside makes use of a Grossmann curve, in order you watch the steadiness wheel backward and forward, you already know it’s not simply made to mesmerize, but in addition to point the time with the utmost precision.
It’s a good looking expression of timekeeping, from each angle, by means of and thru.
Retail is CHF 105,600 or roughly $133,475.
Photographs by Kari Voutilainen.
