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Masahiro Kikuno watches are produced from the hand of all his own.
Mechanical design, a design, production, finish, assembling, a process of the each adjustment are performed by One horologer.
This watch filled with thoughts of the creator.
The originality of his watches amounts to what they are made by “hand ". The cutting out of the bridges and the tourbillon cage, and even enrolling the numbers on the dial plate are achieved by hand.
Why by hand?
He says, as most people including me, to create a watch oneself, we had to provide a lot of special tools and expensive automatic machines. And mostly, the funds to possessing none of these means, he thought that it was impossible to make the watch.
The amount of production of one year is one or two.
Masahiro Kikuno was born in Japan in 1983. He started his watchmaking after graduated from HIKO Mizuno College WOSTEP course. He remained as the teacher of this course. He announced the temporal hour watch called "Wadokei" in Baselworld 2011.
Mr. Kikuno will be present at Baselworld 2013 to present his creations
Technical Specifications
Tourbillon 2012
Case: 43mm 18k Rose gold
Movement: cal.mk12
19 jewels
1 minute Tourbillon
Manual winding
Herringbone finish
Note: Transparent back
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