Mr. Jones watches yesterday announced a 100 peice limited edition called the Tadaima designed by London-based Japanese illustrator, Yo Hosoyamada.
Designed to celebrate Hosoyamada’s home city of Tokyo, the Tadaima features an illustrated bird that flies above the cityscape, while a cat watches through a window.
Minutes are displayed by the position of the bird, while a jump-hour complication shows the hours through a window of the tallest building.
The watch was priced at £245 and limited to 100 peices, so unsurprisingly sold out in minutes. Hopefully we’ll see a re-issue in future,
Said Hosoyamada of the design: “ただいま Tadaima is the Japanese for ‘I’m home!’, the first thing you say when you walk through the door (the reply to tadaima is okaeri which means ‘welcome home’).
It’s something you say when you come home after a long day of work, or after you have been away for a while. It also means ‘right now’ or ‘the present’.
Living and working away from my hometown of Tokyo, I wanted to design the watch that would serve as a window or a portal that could transport me home whenever I wanted.
It’s a homage to the city I love that means I can carry it with me wherever I go.”
More information can be found at mrjoneswatches.com and yo-hoso.com.
