Independents

KURONO are the Japan-made watches designed by independent Japanese watchmaker Hajime Asaoka and have recently produced beautiful timepieces that share many design details of Hajime's exclusive handmade atelier watches. I have been fortunate to see one of ...  

What’s the movement?

It’s nice to know that Miyota does column wheel chronographs

Excerpt from Kurono Tokyo website: For the Chronograph 2, Hajime chose the mechanical chronograph caliber NE86A from one of Japan's most esteemed movement manufacturers - positioned by them as its newest flagship chronograph movement and successor to the ... 

One website has it running at -15 to +25 seconds per day at 23 degrees Celsius.

Very interesting and fresh piece. Thanks Cap.

From a watchmaker and designer that wants us to be able to enjoy his watches.

I only saw pictures of it nuts looks amazing

This won't go on sale until the end of this month with deliveries starting in March.

I love the colors of the dial. Even the date doesn't bother me. Thanks for the photos. M4

Especially as it has many elements within the dial.

stating when they'll start taking orders. Looks great and is very tempting but I'm not so sure about the legibility of a 38mm chrono.

It’s worked in the past for Patek Philippe amongst others.

and for others as well. But I am not so sure if they were used as one would use a chrono. The Heuers while even smaller at 36 have higher contrast dials as far as I recall. Not that it really matters; it has been a long time since I've used a chronograph ... 

with a high contrast dial it could work. But then again, I'm not sure it really matters as we just don't use wrist worn chronos for precise measurements anymore.