About this watch

S.U.F Helsinki X Moomin Diver As you’re probably aware, we’re enormous fans of Sarpaneva here at Watch Vault. As spectacular as they are, their price point can sometimes be prohibitive. But alas, Stepan and his team have a solution to this issue, and that solution is S.U.F Helsinki. What Tudor is to Rolex, S.U.F is a sub-brand of Sarpaneva and allows some of Stepan’s watchmaking magic to accessed by more people. But it’s not only a price-pointed product. They are quite different to Sarpaneva in their mostly tool-watch vibe, and therefore have an appeal all of their own. This particular piece is based on the Vetehinen, which was S.U.F's first dive watch. It was named in tribute to the Finnish Submarine of 1942 who was famously willing to conserve his torpedoes and instead order a steep, fast dive to ram his underwater adversary. A pure demonstration of Finnish 'Sisu'. But what happens when you take an altogether serious Diver from S.U.F, and combine them with something as whimsical as the Moomin? Sarpaneva first celebrated Moomins, the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, with the S.U.F Moomin edition rele…