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Thanks for sharing. For me there is a big difference between impressive and beautiful watches. For me, and possibly for me only, these two belong to the former category.

Beauty, but is that pot you're smoking?

And its production number is only known by a handful of passionate collectors of Observatory chronometers. As far as the numbers of Kari's chronometer 27. Do not trust information posted on the net. Not even specialised sellers... I hope you will enjoy your newly acquired beautiful chronometer 27.

Thank you for sharing glimpses of your journey in commissioning a bespoke GMT 6 from Kari. You said it yourself, do not make decisions by going into too much details. Do not make decisions based on options. Imho commissioning a watch from a watchmaker like Kari should not be a trip from you to yours

Not really ébauches, Rather true cal. 360 in their double casing. The vast majority of those cased in by Voutilainen have not been presented to observatory competitions. The exact production number of cal. 360 is known. So is the total number of chronometer 27 made by Kari. You are not far off but i

Not a bad watch, but nothing revolutionary- it works like a monopusher. As everyone knows PP had already that kind of "complication" in the 1940's. It would be a bit more of a feat if the chronograph had a chronograph hour counter that also would have to be set to zero or, even better, a flyback mec

Nice meeting you Allen and that you for that real treat of a picture! I ought to dig and find some similar pictures of the first hour...!

Not quite Alexandre Dumas' Twenty Years After, only five, but none-the-less a real treat of meeting you again at Kari's. I have known Kari for some 16 years now and it has been really amazing to see how he's gone from strength to strength, building up what amounts today to much more than a simple at