Independents

Greetings to all! As promised, here's a longer narrative of the highlights of our visit with Kari last week, including more photos. We drove up from Interlaken, and the navigation system in our rental car guided us to Kari's new home and atelier: Quite be...  

Kari's new atelier looks wonderful and inspiring. I can't wait for his new release, it sure will be something extraordinary in a very pure manner Now I really can't wait to see my watch in metal ;-) Lovesss*CL

Mine was promised delivery this October, and like CL, I can't wait to see it in the metal. Very informative indeed. Cheers Sam

A truly memorable experience to savour - lucky you. A deam visit for any WIS. I'm sure the new house and atelier,which is so tasteful, will inspire Kari to create more exceptional pieces; if that is at all possible. Congrats to those who will be getting t... 

Kari's new home/atelier looks peaceful for an artist to create more art pieces...thanks

Kari's work is so impressive! Every time someone posts pictures of their new Observatoire I'm blown away by the beauty of Kari's handiwork. I don't think I've ever seen an iteration that I felt really missed the mark. It looks like you had a fantastic vis... 

Thank you for the great write-up and pictures. Kari is doing something very special and you have nicely captured a piece of it. (When Michael H. and I visited Kari in January, he was just starting to clean out the new building before the remodel. It is am... 

Thanks for this great post Gary. It sounds like we will have much joy anticipating Kari's newest work. Don

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superb pictures, superb writing combined with a superb watches done by a superb watchmaker and his talented team. Have I mentioned that it was a superb report? Thanks for sharing!!

for your very good, informative report. Thanks also for obtaining from Kari some information about the production number of his Observatoire model. My census has now risen to 24 different watches (ie watches that can be identified as being different from ... 

Thanks Gary...what a great place he has there...thanks for the very interesting pictures. Tim

Excellent post. I certainly learned a lot about watchmaking (as I do with all the posts on this website).

Good post ! thanks a lot

I will be visiting Kari in July and am eagerly anticipating it, not least because I hope to finally pick up my own Observatoire at that time. Speaking of which, I wonder whether the frosted-gold Observatoire movement in your photos was my watch - Kari tol... 

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Thank you for a very intimate insight, one which adds greatly to our knowledge and understanding of the man, the brand and the philosophy. Now, forget all that 'discretion' nonsense: what's next???? ;-) Cheers, pplater.

Thanks so much for sharing it with us. I can't wait to visit his new place myself! Calendar plate...hmm...the possibilities. Sounds good to me no matter what it is!

Very personal look at the man behind the watches. - SJX

I throughly enjoyed reading your aticle and seeing the photos. I shall look forward to reading - hopefully many more reports on your different visits.

This is one of the greatest reports I have ever seen, the overview of the atmosphere in which he lives and creates tells a lot about the person. Thank you so much!