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Kikuchi Nakagawa
Murakumo
A highly distinguished, elegant and delightful stainless steel automatic wristwatch with hack seconds, black dial and Breguet numerals
- Estimate
- CHF10,000 - 20,000€10,800 - 21,600$12,600 - 25,100
CHF64,770
Lot Details
- Manufacturer
- Kikuchi Nakagawa
- Year
- Circa 2023
- Movement No
- 210'965
- Model Name
- Murakumo
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Calibre
- Automatic, Cal. KN001, 29 jewels
- Bracelet/Strap
- Leather
- Clasp/Buckle
- Stainless steel pin buckle
- Dimensions
- 36.8mm diameter
- Signed
- Case, dial and movement signed
- Accessories
- Accompanied by Kikuchi Nakagawa Certificate dated March 2023, presentation box and outer packaging.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Founded in 2018 by watchmakers Yusuke Kikuchi and Tomonari Nakagawa, the brand is deeply and openly inspired by 1930s-1950s watchmaking. By their own assertion, the brand has two themes as cornerstones, one of them indeed being “Making an authentic watch as an extension of the golden age of mechanical wristwatches”. The other one is “Extracting distinctive abstract aspects of the metal and pursuing the art of metal to push beyond its functionality.”
Judging by the result of their efforts, both marks have been fully reached and surpassed. While striving to remain within the aesthetics of Golden Age watchmaking, they pushed the boundaries of that style to the limit in order to create a watch that is both modern and intimately vintage. While, for example, keeping the thinness of the watch at 8.5 and its diameter at 36.8mm, the generous gap between the lugs, flat polished bezel and massive Breguet-style hands grant the watch an incredibly modern wearability.
The attention to details of the brand is even more remarkable in consideration of the fact that most of the watch is handmade. Just the polishing of the case is an extremely demanding and time-consuming task given the “no-tolerance” policy about even the slightest case distortion.
Their faithfulness to their tenets goes at times to surprising extremes, such as with the choice of giving the watch a solid back covering an exquisitely decorated movement and rotor, exactly as famously was the case with some of the best executed watches of the mid-20th century such as Patek Philippe’s ref. 2526.
Making its debut in a Phillips saleroom, we are honored to offer this exquisite modern classic of horology.
Judging by the result of their efforts, both marks have been fully reached and surpassed. While striving to remain within the aesthetics of Golden Age watchmaking, they pushed the boundaries of that style to the limit in order to create a watch that is both modern and intimately vintage. While, for example, keeping the thinness of the watch at 8.5 and its diameter at 36.8mm, the generous gap between the lugs, flat polished bezel and massive Breguet-style hands grant the watch an incredibly modern wearability.
The attention to details of the brand is even more remarkable in consideration of the fact that most of the watch is handmade. Just the polishing of the case is an extremely demanding and time-consuming task given the “no-tolerance” policy about even the slightest case distortion.
Their faithfulness to their tenets goes at times to surprising extremes, such as with the choice of giving the watch a solid back covering an exquisitely decorated movement and rotor, exactly as famously was the case with some of the best executed watches of the mid-20th century such as Patek Philippe’s ref. 2526.
Making its debut in a Phillips saleroom, we are honored to offer this exquisite modern classic of horology.