Haruo Suekichi’s Steampunk Watches

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Fashion, Pictures on November 15, 2008 at 7:02 pm


Haruo Suekichi is a Japanese artist who specializes in making wonderful steampunk watches. In the past 12 years, Haruo has made some 7,000 watches - he started out selling them in the flea market, but now his watches are very collectible.

Chief Mag has an interview with the master watchmaker, who recounted an interesting tale of how he got the whole idea because he wanted to design a watch for a one-armed man:

at the flea market, a one-armed man came up to me. And he said to me, well, with only my left arm, I can’t put on a watch. Wow, I thought, he’s right…I wonder if I could make a watch like that? So I made - and you can see one upstairs in the showcase - I made a watch that you put your wrist in it and it shuts around your wrist.

Link | Gallery of Haruo’s watches [in Japanese]


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13 comments to "Haruo Suekichi’s Steampunk Watches"

  1. silentwatcher24
    November 15th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    those are really cool. Very rusticly beautiful.

  2. lovemeordie236
    November 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    Very antique-cool

  3. JamesM
    November 16th, 2008 at 2:00 am

    I can’t wait until the Steampunk fad goes the way of the hula hoop and hypercolor shirts.

  4. Xanth
    November 16th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Beautiful. I want one :3

  5. Görkem
    November 16th, 2008 at 5:03 am

    I want one too :(
    they are really cool.

  6. Rocky Rook
    November 16th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Steampunk is immortal.

  7. ted
    November 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Why not a bear-trap style watch?

  8. Clippy
    November 16th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Or a packet watch. :P

  9. renderanything
    November 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    I just came across these yesterday. He does have quite the selection and array of styles.

  10. tiredofthisbullshit
    November 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    What is the matter with you people?

  11. sw
    November 17th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    but why? there were watches in the victorian era. isn’t the point of steampunk to retrofit things that did not exist in the victirian era?

  12. MENLOHEAVYWEIGHT
    November 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    There are those of us that have a connection to steam punk because we are not satified with everything shiny, made of plastic, and mass manufacutred, and those of us that are, satisfied to own apple computers, drive prius’s, and live in a cookie cutter world. It is not that you have to enjoy the astetic or like the look of brass, but to marvel at the craftsmanship and inguenity of a item not made by a company on wall street but a man or woman that lives right down the street from you, that is what steampunk is about.

  13. Antony
    January 11th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    Hello,

    I live in Japan and can go and buy Suekichi
    watches at 2 shops I know in Tokyo, for a
    small commission.

    Feel free to contact me at anchyo123 (at) yahoo.co.jp

    Kind regards,
    Antony.


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