Learning to do fun, Finns seek to overcome Soviet export legacy

Helsinki

SUUNTO'S sports watches have scaled the highest peaks and dived the biggest depths, helping boost the value of parent company Amer Sports Oyj along the way.

The growing global reach of these award-winning timepieces is a bright spot in a Finnish economy that's still struggling to overcome the demise of Nokia Oyj's mobile phone business.

Yet they remain outliers in a country whose continuing reliance on investment goods, many of which were originally conceived for the Soviet Union, means it has a n…