VOUTILAINEN – Current [Vingt-8] 28LQU "Kohan"Japanese lacquer Dial Kitamura Studio - Unique Piece - 2025
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Created and developed especially with a Finnish private client to celebrate the love he holds for his wife for her birthday, the Voutilainen 28 Kohan Unique Piece embodies the symbiosis of Tatsuo Kitamura's extraordinary lacquer Japanese artistry, the traditional hand-engraving techniques and enamel with the Voutilainen workshop's philosophy of longevity, precision and classical watchmaking tradition.
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Voutilainen 28 Kohan Unique Piece
The one-of-a-kind timepiece highlights a mesmerizing case, a distinctive dial made using Urushi lacquering technique along with a movement whose bridges and ratchet wheel are crafted with the same meticulous art, requiring over a thousand hours of work. The raw materials used in this artwork include "Urushi" (tree sap), "Kinpun" (various gold powder), "Kirigane" (cut gold sheets) and "Kirigai" (cut shells from the great green turban and New Zealand abalone).
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The Kitamura Studio and Urushi Lacquer Tradition
The Kitamura Studio, one of the world's foremost Urushi lacquer studios, is located in Wajima, Japan. Under the guidance of Mr. Tatsuo Kitamura, it produces Urushi lacquer art that represents the pinnacle of Japanese tradition, carrying a craft that has endured for centuries into the modern era. Each piece embodies a profound respect for preserving the soul, spirit, and cultural identity of traditional Japan, as it was expressed during the Edo period (1615-1868). Among the various Urushi lacquering techniques, such as "Maki-e" and "Raden" in true classical tradition, Kitamura particularly excels in his own original one, "Saiei Maki", which imparts a contemporary feel.
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About Urushi lacquer's techniques
MAKI-E is a lacquer work and a decoration technique in which designs or patterns are drawn in Urushi lacquer, over which gold-powder is sprinkled (scattered) while the lacquer is wet, securing the design on the surface.
RADEN is a mother-of-pearl inlay work and a decoration technique in which designs or patterns are drawn in Urushi lacquer, gold-powder, cut gold sheets, turban and abalone shell.
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Technical Characteristics
Model: 28LQU - Unique Piece
Unique, in house designed movement with hours and minutes, two escapement wheels with direct impulse
Design, construction, fabrication, finishing and assembly in the Voutilainen workshops
- Diameter : 30.00mm
- Number of components : 223
- German-silver main plate, steel rachet wheel and bridges made from titanium with art decoration hand-made by the legendary Japanese lacquer Kitamura Studio
- Wheels made from gold
- Main plate and bridges manufactured from German silver.
- Wheels manufactured from gold.
- 30 jewels
- Integrated retrograde power reserve indication.
- Power reserve: 65h
- Free sprung balance wheel with rose gold timing weights
- 18.000 variations / hours
Balance diameter 13.60mm,
The exterior of the spring uses a typical Phillips overcoil,
while the internal curve uses the little known Grossmann curve.
Case
Case and crown made in-house from white gold
Size ø 37 mm
Thickness 12.60 mm
Crown with granite stone
Case cover with hand-engraving and enamel on the outside and inside with art decoration hand-made by the legendary Japanese lacquer Kitamura Studio
Waterproofness 30 m
Functions
Hours, minutes
Dial
Unique dial hand-made and decorated by the legendary Japanese lacquer Kitamura Studio
lacquer technique by Tatsuo Kitamura comprising Kinpun (gold dust)
The techniques of lacquering with Urushi lacquering techniques, such as ‘Maki-e’ and ‘Raden’ in true classical tradition(abalone shell from New Zealand).‘
Urushi’ (tree sap), ‘Kinpun’ (various gold powder), ‘Kirigane’ (cut-gold) and ‘Kirigai’ (cut-shells from great green turban and New Zealand abalone).
Hands Made from gold and blued steel
Strap
Hand-sewn green crocodile strap with gold buckle
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Additionals
All design, manufacturing, construction, fabrication, hand finishing and assembly in the Voutilainen workshop.
Year 2025
🔰Edition ✅Only ❱❱❱ 1 piece.
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Press Release - 2025
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Kari Voutilainen
Voutilainen Horlogerie d’Art
Comblémine 2
2112 Môtiers | Switzerland
Tél +41 32 861 4832
Fax +41 32 861 4833
voutilainen@voutilainen.ch
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