Sarpaneva
Lunations Eclipse

Sarpaneva Lunations Eclipse

I've always liked simple things. Steel. Good tools. Honest watchmaking. Maybe that is the Finnish side of me.

Years ago, while working at Parmigiani, I learned from my fellow countryman Kari Voutilainen how complicated watches should be made. Later, working with Vianney Halter, I learned something entirely different.

"There are no rules. Everything is possible."

That combination can be dangerous. The result is Lunations.

At first glance, it is simply a Sarpaneva. A steel watch. Helsinki dial. Hours and minutes. The familiar Korona case.

Nothing moving across the dial. No rushing seconds hand. No distraction.

Just steel.

"For me, steel has always been alive. Light moves across it. Shadows appear and disappear.

Surfaces change character throughout the day. The watch is never completely still."

Eclipse

Over the years, I have become more interested in removing things than adding them. Making a watch quieter. Slower. Allowing space to breathe. The dial shows only what is necessary.

Time is almost secondary. The real madness lives on the other side.

Turn the watch over and you will find the Moonment® calibre and a moon phase mechanism so precise that it will accumulate a single day of error only once every 14,000 years.

An unnecessary achievement. Which is probably why it was worth pursuing. Most moon phase watches place the moon at the centre of attention. This does not. "The moon does not need to be seen to be present."

It remains where it has always been. Pulling tides. Illuminating darkness. Quietly influencing the world around us whether we pay attention to it or not.

The moon lives on the reverse side of the watch, known primarily to its owner.

Constant.

Faithful.

Hidden in plain sight.

Somewhere between Finnish practicality and independent watchmaking, I stopped worrying about doing things the obvious way. I became more interested in doing things because they felt right. Lunations is my expression of that.

A steel landscape on one side. The moon on the other.

My kind of madness.