Every enduring object begins with a deeply personal reason. Soundlocket® began with mine. As a mother, I wanted my children to always carry something that no photograph or keepsake could ever replace: my sound, my love and the feeling of being close, wherever life might take them. I wasn’t trying to create a luxury object or a piece of jewellery. I was searching for a way to give love a lasting form. Nothing I found felt timeless enough. So I began creating it. What started as a mother’s love became Soundlocket®, an object where Finnish craftsmanship, precision and timeless design come together with quiet purpose. Every Soundlocket® is still created with that same intention.

Warm regards,

Krista Kinnunen
Founder

Soundlocket® began with a mother’s wish to give her children something uniquely her own: her voice, her words and the feeling of being close. The idea was simple, yet unprecedented: to create an object capable of holding sound within itself, independent of batteries, applications and changing technologies. What began as a deeply personal thought became the starting point for a decade of design, engineering and craftsmanship.

The idea found its physical form through a collaboration with Finnish designer Harri Koskinen. Koskinen translated the purpose of Soundlocket® into a quiet, circular design defined by clarity, balance and permanence. Its form was created to feel immediately understandable and to remain relevant beyond changing styles. The essential design established in 2018 continues to define Soundlocket® today.

In 2020, renowned Finnish watchmaker Kari Voutilainen joined the journey as an advisor and supporter of the project. His understanding of enduring mechanisms, exceptional finishing and objects created to pass from one generation to the next helped strengthen the standards guiding Soundlocket®. The ambition was no longer simply to make the idea function. Every detail had to be worthy of the meaning held within it.

After years of engineering, experimentation and refinement, the first working Soundlocket® prototype was completed in 2021. For the first time, the original idea existed as a functioning object: sound could be recorded, held and reproduced using energy generated by winding the crown by hand. The prototype proved that something entirely new could be made real.

In 2025, the first completed Soundlockets were individually assembled, inspected and delivered to their owners. Nearly a decade after the original idea, Soundlocket® had become what it was always intended to be: a lasting object for the sounds that matter. Each piece marked both a completion and a beginning, the first chapter in the continuing story of Soundlocket®.

Soundlocket® did not begin with an existing mechanism, product category or established way of making. It began with a question: could sound be given a lasting physical form?

Every part of the answer had to be developed from the beginning. The form evolved through several generations of prototypes. Once the exterior had reached its essential expression, the work continued inside: engineering, energy generation, sound reproduction, materials, assembly and reliability each required further rounds of development and refinement.

Nearly a decade passed between the original idea and the CE-certified Soundlocket® made today. The time was not spent adding more. It was spent making something entirely new feel simple.

The first Soundlockets marked the completion of a decade-long journey. They also marked the beginning of what comes next. Every Soundlocket® created today carries forward the same original intention: to give the sounds that matter a lasting physical form.