MASAHIRO KIKUNO WATCHES
Masahiro Kikuno is the first Japanese watchmaker to join the prestigious Swiss institution AHCI (Académie Horlogère Des Créateurs Indépendants). He was born on 08th February 1983 in Fukagawa, Hokkaido. Masahiro Kikuno is specialized in the manufacturing of exclusive handmade mechanical watches.
Kikuno started his watchmaking career after graduated from HIKO Mizuno College WOSTEP course. In 2011, he became the candidate member of AHCI and unveiled the temporal hour watch called “Wadokei” in Baselworld watch fair in the same year.
The originality of the Masahiro Kikuno 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.
In 2013, Masahiro Kikuno became the regular member of AHCI. His masterpiece creations are: the Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon (2011), Japanese style “Temporal hour watch “(2011), Tourbillon (2012), ORIZURU (2013), MOKUME (2014), Wadokei Revision (2015), Wadokei Revision Gyousyou (2016, unique piece not for sale ), Wadokei Revision Jikon (unique piece not for sale) and Sakubou (2017).
