Voutilainen

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Môtiers, Val-de-Travers, SwitzerlandFounded 2002Website

Independent watchmaking workshop in Môtiers, Switzerland, founded by Finnish-born watchmaker Kari Voutilainen. Produces around 50 watches per year as a vertically integrated manufacture with in-house dial, case, and guilloché capabilities.

Kari Voutilainen began watchmaking training at the Espoo School of Watchmaking in Finland in 1983, graduating in 1986. In 1988 he moved to Switzerland for a refresher course at WOSTEP followed by training in complicated timepieces. In 1994 he crafted his first own timepiece, a tourbillon pocket watch requiring over 2,000 hours. He established Voutilainen Horlogerie d'Art in Môtiers in 2002. In 2009 the workshop moved to a historic villa in Môtiers. The in-house caliber 28 with two escapement wheels and direct impulse was unveiled in 2011. In 2014, Voutilainen acquired Comblémine SA, a dial manufacturer in Val-de-Travers. Voutilainen & Cattin, a case manufacture in Saignelégier, was created in 2018. In 2021, Voutilainen together with investors acquired Urban Jürgensen. The workshop moved to the Chapeau de Napoléon premises in Val-de-Travers in 2021. In 2024, Brodbeck Guillochage was founded in Fleurier. By 2025, the workshop had won 12 GPHG awards, including for the 28GML SOUYOU.