“Swiss Made” is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions fine watches, however, this particular watch is made in Finland, who knew the Fins could make watches. The Sarpaneva Korona Moonshine watch is made in Finland by Stepan Sarpaneva and is an unusual watch. The watch is more of a fashion statement than a time telling device.
The Korona tells time but in not in the usual way, it only shows what hour it is, the minutes have to be guessed, which doesn’t make it very accurate and a lot of appointments are surely to be missed; but then again, if you’re important enough, they’ll wait for you.
The Korona Moonshine’s face has a big ugly face of the moon starring at you, where the hour and minute hands are normally found. Around the moon face, there is a rotating disk with 24 hour makers with an opening at the 6 o’clock position to show the current time hour. 12 of those hour markers contain lume so you can inaccurately tell time in the dark of the night.
As a watch, the Sarpaneva Korona Moonshine watch is pretty useless, as a fashion statement (or any other kind of statement); it hits the bull’s eye.
[Source: Sarpaneva]
