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Born in 1965 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Hajime Asaoka
completed his studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts where
he was an Undergraduate from the School of Fine Art, Design
Department in 1990. It was in 1992 when Sensei established the
Hajime Asaoka Design Office and thus began his watchmaking
journey in 1997.
Taking inspiration from traditional handmade practices, Hajimesensei incorporated his own unique perspective of refinement
and modernity into his timepieces. By 2011, he made his debut
as Japan’s first independent watchmaker. Today, Hajime Asaoka is
acclaimed as one of the world’s top-independent watchmakers who
has successfully birthed a watchmaking philosophy that is both
distinctively Japanese and unquestionably him.
