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Dream Watch — Aka Fuji Urushi Kindai Maki-e 蒔絵
Japan's most sacred mountain. Your wrist.
The Dream Watch Aka Fuji Urushi Kindai Maki-e primary is a hand-lacquered timepiece depicting Mount Fuji — Fujisan — rendered on a deep urushi lacquer dial. Each watch is finished by a single Japanese master artisan, working through a process that spans weeks and more than forty individual lacquer applications.
The base layer is a hand-lacquered urushi dial made in Echizen, Japan and ontop of the urushi dial is decorated with a silk printing maki-e technique or what we call Modern maki-e/ Kindai Maki-e of Red Mt Fuji or "AKA FUJI."
The Maki-e technique: Kindai Maki-e
Traditional Maki-e (蒔絵 — "sprinkled picture") is one of Japan's supreme lacquer arts, developed in the Nara period and refined over twelve centuries. The artisan draws the art motif in wet urushi using a brush of just three to five hairs, then immediately dusts 24-carat gold powder across the wet surface. Each layer cures in a humidity-controlled cabinet before the next is applied. The result is a dial with physical depth — light enters the lacquer, travels through its layers, and returns warm and alive in a way that no synthetic coating can replicate. Traditional Maki-e: Prices generally start at $800 and can easily exceed $10,000 for intricate "Taka Maki-e" (raised design) or "Togidashi" (burnished) pieces from master artisans like Namiki or Nakaya
Kindai Maki-e is a Way to make Maki-e accessible! Enjoyable by ALL!
Kindai Maki-e is a modern adaptation of traditional Japanese lacquerware that uses silk-screening and hand-sprinkled metallic powders to create intricate, affordable designs.
Why Mount Fuji?
Fujisan (富士山) has been the subject of Japanese art for over a thousand years — from Hokusai's woodblock prints to the oldest Maki-e lacquerware in Japan's imperial collection. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Japan's highest peak, it carries layered meaning: endurance, beauty, and the aspiration towards something greater. On a watch dial, viewed in the space between your heartbeat and your next breath, it is exactly right.
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- Movement: Miyota 9015 automatic — 24 jewels, 28,800 bph, hacking, hand-winding 42hr Power Reserve
- Case: 42mm · 316L stainless steel · brushed and polished
- Lug To Lug: 50mm
- Thickness: 11mm
- Weight: 56 grams
- Dial: Hand-lacquered urushi from Echizen + Kindai Maki-e of Aka Fuji Maki-e on urushi dial — made in Ishikawa Japan
- Crystal: Domed sapphire, double anti-reflective coating
- Water resistance: 50 metres
- Caseback: Engraced Mt Fuji Case Back
- Strap: Genuine Calfskin leather 20mm
- Box: Paulownia kiri wood presentation box, artisan certificate included
Kindai
Maki-e
Kindai Maki-e combines modern design with a traditional urushi base. The process uses digital design and high-grade silk printing onto the lacquer surface.
This approach allows consistent quality at a more accessible cost.
Urushi Lacquer Base
Echizen Urushi
Below the "Aka Fuji" Kindai Maki-e is an Urushi Base hand lacquered in Echizen Japan
Inspiration
Aka Fuji (Red Mt Fuji)
refers to the phenomenon of Mount Fuji appearing red at sunrise or sunset, often considered a lucky omen
Powered By a Japanese Movement Miyota 9015
Assembled Locally
To support local craftsmanship
Every Dream Watch Urushi is hand-assembled by
veteran watchmakers in Bungotakada, Oita, Japan.
blending tradition with precision.
