Picked mine up last month...

And posted a small report of my trip -> click here

The movement is very reliable, it's a Soprod A-10, which is being used by an increasing number of independent watchmakers. Sarpaneva takes apart the whole movement, modifies the mainplate, the mainplate will be DLC-ed by the way, his own date mechanism is installed (on the K1 and K2, the K3 and Korona WG and RG have his own moonphase mechanism).
The hands... black polished... and soooo beautiful, the dial... hand finishing of well over 200 miniscule holes on the K1... so imagine the K2, K3 and Korona WG and RG having even more holes to finish by hand. Everything is so incredibly thought through, the details are just excellent.

Just the movement holders Sarpaneva designed for his Korona series. These are unfinished by the way... at the right lower corner is the original movement holder, the other two are designed by Sarpaneva...

Looking for some feedback on Sarpaneva watches

By: drehy : June 6th, 2009-05:22

If you own one can you post some comments on the watch? I know the watch is crafted in Finland but I want to get some info on the movement. There does not seem to be many dealers worldwide distributing the watch so I would like to know how reliable these ...

I'm picking up my Korona RG in a week, will post feedback as soon as

By: alex : June 6th, 2009-05:41

I spend some time with it

Lucky you Alex ! [nt]

By: foversta : June 7th, 2009-02:46

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Speaking as an owner of K2

By: ling5hk : June 6th, 2009-10:22

It is a Soprod movement modified by Sarpaneva. The movement is covered by the full rotor. You therefore can;t see its details. Based on my 1 year experience, the reliability is not an issue. The most attractive part of the watch is the unique skeletonised...

Picked mine up last month...

By: monochrome : June 7th, 2009-00:38

Now that's attention to details! Even the case clamps! [nt]

By: DonCorson : June 7th, 2009-01:55

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Sarpa owner's experience

By: amerix : June 8th, 2009-11:54

There is hardly a day or a night, for that matter, that goes by without me wearing the K2, the Black Moon or - very, very soon now - the Korona RG. And that with some other great, favorite, even fantastic watches crying out to be worn! (And, trust me, the...

wearing K1 daily

By: monochrome : June 9th, 2009-09:16

Yes daily... and i find it hard to put it aside and give of of my other watches some wrist time. It's strange, this never happened before. I guess it's like Amerix said, a watch wearer and no watch bearer. Although it's 44mm, which is not small, it wears ...