US source for Sonderegger pepper mill mechanisms?

[Roger Wiegand]

I met an extraordinarily good turner at a street market in Lucerne Switzerland last week. In addition to some astonishingly good bowls he had beautiful peppermills of his own design that were of serious industrial capacity (lined with stainless steel tubes). The mechanisms however really caught my eye. They are Swiss made burr-type grinders that looked to be precision machines. The adjustability was great and they were capable of grinding a lot of pepper in a hurry. To my eye they looked like they might be even better than the revered Peugeot mills that can no longer be purchased as a bare mechanism.

As someone who cooks more than they turn wood I'm always in pursuit of a functionally perfect pepper mill to be able to give to people and find the mechanisms that can be bought readily in the US to be sadly lacking for kitchen use.

I'd love to get hold of some of these mills to see if they are as good as they appear. They are marked "Sonderegger" and "Swiss Made". I found a seller in Germany, but haven't found the source in Switzerland yet. A US importer would be ideal. I'll order some from Germany for testing, but would love to find a more economical source-- shipping is a killer these days.
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Brainstorm while typing-- try the right language-- Google is good, but not perfect. Searching instead for "Sonderegger pfeffermühle" took me straight to the maker. https://somec.ch/ Still no NA source that I can find, but I will write to him directly about it.

 

[David Flicker]

Please keep us updated. I'd be interested in trying a few of these.

 

[Jonathan Harkins]

A North American source would be great, I'm interested also.

Did you happen to take any pictures of the mills that you liked?

 

[Roger Wiegand]

Foolishly, I didn't take any pictures of the inside, which was the part that looked remarkable. The exteriors were mostly plain cylinders with a matte finish-- very sleek, well proportioned, and modern feeling. Here's a close up of the bottom and one of the fellow at his booth. You can see his mills on the table.