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About Masahiro Kikuno
- Masahiro Kikuno (?? ??, Kikuno Masahiro, born February 8, 1983) is a Japanese watchmaker and youngest member of Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants.As a child, Kikuno had a fascination with mechanical items.
- He wore out the owners manual of the family car looking through it at age 2.
- After high school, he joined the Japanese military where his skills in dismantling and reassembling weapons were noted and he was placed in a job repairing rifles.Kikuno studied at the Hiko Mizuno Watchmaking School though the three year course focused on repair rather than creating new timepieces.
- He instead turned to George Daniels step by step book Watchmaking and taught himself and taught watchmaking at the school for three more years.
- He sold his first watch at age 29.Kikuno rose to prominence with the debut of his 2011 adaptation of Hisashige Tanaka's myriad year clock in wristwatch form at BaselWorld.
- This wadokei clock which measures temporal hours which change in length with the seasons.
- Made completely by hand, 6 daylight hours and 6 night hours slowly move around the watch face with the seasons.
- Each ¥18million (approximately $160,000 USD) watch is tuned to the customer's latitude by Kikuno.
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