I've been a lurker for some weeks now but decided to finally sign up, so greetings! I'm not sure if the MING counts as an independent, but I've seen some other Kurono Tokyo / Chrono Tokyo watches, so I threw that in to be safe. The Ming watch is their div...
The Chrono design was for the JDM only (at least so far), and hasn't made it to Kurono Tokyo yet. I like it because it looks like Hajime Asaoka's Tsunami watches without the $50k price tag haha.
Hajime Asaoka is the Japanese Dufour! He belongs here if anyone does, even with Kurono! Is that his design too? And Ming? Just look at them! Independent? Yes! Watchmaker? Ok fine, we'll take it!