Haruo Suekichi is a steampunk watch maker. Not having any formal education in making watches, Suekichi learned how to make watches by becoming friends with a watch maker whose store was located across from the toy store Suekichi was working. Because he began making ’strange’ watches, his watch maker friend kicked him out. Haruo Suekichi has made thousands of watches, each with an individual name. And to think it all started with a one-armed man at a flea market in
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Can these watches be ordered off of anywhere on the net?
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Nope, you can’t order them through the web.
Suekichi-san makes most of his watches as works of art these days. They are one-of-a-kind and hence he doesn’t really feel like selling them. He wants them on display and will occasionally sell off one or two. Or sometimes he’ll make more than one of the same watch, which will be for sale.
Unfortunately you can only buy his watches through one or two brick&mortar stores in Tokyo. I ended up paying about 200 euros for one of them.
See:
http://www.kilala.nl/index.php?id=980
The Google map for my trip to Japan contains a marker for the store shown in the pictures above. Follow the link at http://www.kilala.nl/index.php?id=968
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