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Who is Masahiro Kikuno

Youngest master watch maker

INR 1.5cr watch

Mashahiro Kikuno’s watches retail for INR 1.5cr and above. He painstakingly crafts each watch with his hands over months. He took six months to build temporal watch.He hasn’t accepted new orders since 2020. He is the youngest member of Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants.

Master watch makers like Masahiro have advanced orders for the years. They are modern painters, sculptors and artists. Customers pay them to dream. Average price for such watches is INR 1cr. For temporal watch he drew influences from Japan’s historical legacies such as a zen temple, Meiji era temporal watch, and the master craftsmen.

Some of his celebrated watches are:

• Tourbillion 2012 incorporated zen rock garden in its dial.
• Orizuru 2013 incorporated square chest of drawers from the traditional ships.
• Mokume 2104 incorporated woodgrain decorative techniques for the swords.
• Sakuboi incorporated lunar calendar with moon in its watch face.

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