KURONO - Chronograph 2
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 ...
in order to keep it all-Japanese.
It’s nice to know that Miyota does column wheel chronographs
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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 ...
NE86A is a seiko movement, not Miyota, as per my cursory Google search.
One website has it running at -15 to +25 seconds per day at 23 degrees Celsius.
It’s good to see something different...
From a watchmaker and designer that wants us to be able to enjoy his watches.
That must be the Chrono 1
This won't go on sale until the end of this month with deliveries starting in March.
That's a heckuva nice watch.
I love the colors of the dial. Even the date doesn't bother me. Thanks for the photos. M4
I feel that the design has been well conceived ...
Especially as it has many elements within the dial.
I got that email from them
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.
Yes
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 ...
True
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.
