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Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker

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A Japanese approach to watchmaking, executed by hand.

Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock (2016)

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Japan's greatest inventor whose life span a formative period in the nation's history, Tanaka Hisashige built the Myriad Year Clock, a 1000-part masterpiece that's today a national treasure.