Leijona Heritage Urho watches

The Leijona Heritage Urho Chrono is a 42 mm steel automatic watch from Voutilainen x Leijona, the 1907 Collection that the Finnish brand Leijona made with Kari Voutilainen, the Finnish watchmaker who lives in Môtiers, Switzerland. It is named after Urho Perkko, the youngest of the three brothers who founded Oy Perkko Ab, whom the brand remembers as a highly skilled and meticulous watchmaker.

Voutilainen's own suppliers make the parts that show. The case is polished and finished by hand at Voutilainen & Cattin, and the dial comes from Comblémine SA, the Swiss dial maker Voutilainen owns, with luminous markers and hands painted by hand. The case is 13.2 mm thick, takes a 22 mm strap and is water resistant to 100 m, with a screw-down caseback that has a window. Behind it is a Sellita SW510 BH automatic movement with about 48 hours of reserve; the seconds hand stops when the crown is pulled, so the time can be set to the second.

The Urho Chrono models share case and movement and differ by dial: the Urho Chrono Black (19.100.01.210), the White Panda (19.100.01.110) and the blue Toivo (20.100.01.310).

The Môtiers Classic (19.300.02.311) is a different watch from the same 1907 Collection. It is smaller and slimmer: a 39 mm steel case 11.6 mm thick, a sky-blue dial, a Sellita SW200-1 with 38 hours of reserve, 30 m water resistance and a 20 mm strap. It is limited to 50 pieces.