Nightwish Pook

Yesterwynden tarina on tarina ajasta

Kelloseppämme Jani Ikonen on kotoisin Kiteeltä, pienestä itäsuomalaisesta kaupungista. Kiteeltä tulee myös Nightwish. Elämä on joskus kummallista. Nightwishin Tuomas Holopainen ja Jani Ikonen tunsivat toisensa vuosikymmeniä viettäessään molemmat nuoruuttaan Kiteellä. Kuten niin monet muutkin nuoret noihin aikoihin, molemmat soittelivat ja treenasivat paikallisissa hard rock -bändeissä ja soittivat. Jotkut jopa intoutuivat tekemään demokappaleitakin, omaksi ja kavereidensa huviksi. Mutta kumpikaan ei osannut ennustaa, mitä tulevaisuus toisi tullessaan...

Soon they became older, and Tuomas founded world famous symphonic heavy metal band Nightwish. Jani studied Horology and started to work as a skillfull professional watchmaker in his hometown. To cut a long story short, these two gentlemen from Kitee discussed whether they coud do something interesting together, maybe a ’steampunk’ kind of a thing. Tuomas brought up an idea for a mechanical watch like the Antikythera device. To be honest, Jani was unaware that such a thing existed.

Antikythera is regarded to be the oldest computer ever created. It is at least 2.000 years old, and made by the ancient Greeks. It was lifted up from the bottom of the sea and scientists around the world have tried, for a very long time, to establish an understanding of different functions of the device. It is widely agreed that at least it could predict the movement of sun and moon and maybe details of the constellations. So, in a little workshop in Eastern Finland, Jani started to build a watch following the concept of a device produced thousands of years ago.

Jani and Tuomas spent a significant amount of time developing the idea forward, and after a while the shape of the watch began to appear. Some solutions that can be seen in the finished watch are the outcome of several stages of thinking and rethinking to find a better way to make the best watch possible.

In the dial and other parts of the design, there are clear visible details which carry the theme of the Yesterwynde album. Therefore it was soon obvious that this watch should be called ’Yesterwynde’. In its design there are also details which are not so easily spotted and understood; the very meaning of the music and watch itself. These details could be called ”easter egg”- mysteries.

The component and design choices serve meaning and also purpose. The movement of the watch is automatic, meaning that it will continue working for decades, and, if serviced regularly, may be passed along from one generation to another. The automatic movement takes the kinetic energy needed from the movement of the user – as long as you continue moving, the watch will keep working.

The music of ’ Yesterwynde’ is the outcome of intensely focused and devoted work from Nightwish. Some may see this album as the highlight and end of a trilogy telling the great story of our relationship to nature and the incredible journey of humanity.

Maybe that is the greatest story ever to be told, as huge as time itself. Therefore, this unique and beautiful timepiece is a symbol of the open hearted; so that the very idea of life and the pulse of the heart needed to keep living is highlighted, every day, as this watch is worn.