Precision Watch Tokyo Co., Ltd.

The official company profile identifies 東京時計精密株式会社 as Precision Watch Tokyo Co., Ltd., founded in August 2016, with Hajime Asaoka as CEO. It states wristwatch manufacture and sales as its business and gives a Bunkyo, Tokyo address.

AHCI places Asaoka’s design office in 1992, the start of his watchmaking in 2005 and own-name watch sales in 2011, before the 2016 company foundation. His personal practice and the later corporate entity therefore have different start dates.

The TAKANO site describes Asaoka as PWT’s founder and a team of watchmakers supporting several brands, with separate watchmaking and machining spaces. PWT is a multi-brand manufacturing business, not one model or merely a renamed personal atelier.

A July 2024 industry report explicitly says PWT licensed the TAKANO trademark from Ricoh Elemex. The official TAKANO history dates the earlier company’s takeover by Riken Optical to 1962 and the new Asaoka-led model to 2024. This supports a licensed revival, not acquisition of the old company or uninterrupted PWT history since 1899.

The official Chateau Nouvel Chronometer page identifies it as the first revived TAKANO model under PWT, with Besançon certification and calibre 90T based on a Japanese automatic movement. Certification and workshop adjustment are not proof of a wholly original, internally manufactured base calibre.

A sponsored July 2024 interview with Asaoka and Jiro Katayama places domestic CHRONO TOKYO in 2018 and the international KURONO BUNKYŌ TOKYO line in 2019. It describes Kurono’s specialist-made cases and Miyota movements and identifies PWT as the production business behind Kurono, revived TAKANO and Ōtsuka Lōtec.

The same interview describes Katayama accepting PWT’s production support for Ōtsuka Lōtec from 2022, giving him time for model refinement and new mechanisms. A manufacturing-support relationship does not by itself prove acquisition of Katayama’s brand or transfer of its intellectual property.

Kurono’s current official site independently identifies Hajime Asaoka as the designer behind its watches. That confirms a creative relationship but does not itself disclose PWT’s shareholder register or every inter-brand contract.

PWT’s own company page gives office 203 at the Maeda Building, while the AHCI profile prints 230. The company’s direct address is preferred for this record; the discrepancy is retained rather than silently treating both as verified current premises.

Classify Precision Watch Tokyo as a confirmed horological business. HAJIME ASAOKA, Kurono, licensed TAKANO and supported Ōtsuka Lōtec are related brand/practice nodes, not spelling aliases of the company.