KNOT
Fashion
enriches lifestyles.
A watch on your wrist, which is often seen more by the people nearby than by
the person wearing it, can express your entire personality. Similar to
coordinating shirts and ties, if wristwatches are chosen based on your
lifestyle and that day’s mood, life can be more fun. We hope to provide
excellently designed, high quality, custom ordered wristwatches made in Japan
around the world at prices affordable to all. Finally, we want to share culture
between Japan and the rest of the world, tying knots to create bonds.
From this vision, Maker’s Watch Knot was established in Kichijoji, a town
blending fashion and nature in the international city of Tokyo.
The
Knot project began with redefining the match manufacturing industry in Japan,
which had shifted to overseas production, to return to factories in Japan,
where outstanding technicians and materials gather. We are involved in all
aspects, from the designing, planning, delivery of parts, assembly, and sales.
Because we do not use intermediaries, even if we use high quality materials
with high costs, we can provide watches from around 10,000 yen. For example,
the glass we use is durable sapphire glass, which is not easily damaged and is
also used for luxury Swiss watches. For the belts, 100% naturally-derived
vegetable-tanned leather and traditional craftwork and techniques from across
Japan.
Sharing Japanese quality to the people of the world.
Why can’t the belts, materials, and colors of a watch be chosen freely? Similarly to coordinating shirts and ties, if wrist watches could be chosen as wrist ware based on lifestyles and that day’s mood, it would me more fun. Knot, which was born from these thoughts, fixated on the ability for anybody to easily customize the watch and the strap. The watch straps are especially easy, as they are equipped with an easy lever that allows them to be replaced without any special tools.
Japanese watches are too expensive. Since when has it been impossible to buy a wrist watch made in Japan for less than 300 dollars? Knot provides high quality watches at one third of the market price. The watch manufacturing industry and distribution in Japan has hardly any new entrants. Many intermediaries are in the middle, causing truly wasteful costs. By eliminating these wasteful costs, we will continue to change prices themselves, in order to create a world where watches made in Japan with excellent quality and design can become anybody’s favorite watch at a reasonable price.
