Kari Voutilainen
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Kari Voutilainen, born in 1962, is a Finnish watchmaker residing in Môtiers
, Switzerland
. He started an independent watchmaking business in 2002, building a limited number of hand-made timekeeper
s. In 2005, he introduced the world's first decimal repeater sounding hours, ten-minute intervals and then minutes.
Môtiers
Môtiers was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers.The old castle,...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. He started an independent watchmaking business in 2002, building a limited number of hand-made timekeeper
Timekeeper
A timekeeper is an instrument or person that measures the passage of time; in the case of the latter, often with the assistance of a clock or stopwatch...
s. In 2005, he introduced the world's first decimal repeater sounding hours, ten-minute intervals and then minutes.