Kanmuri-san no Tokei Koubou - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Welcome!

[MangaDex]

 

[Mabbo]

@_anq There's no page 16, it's 15 being repeated.

Outside of that, thanks for introducing us yet another golden work! It's superb.

 

[PastaLushpop]

This was an awesome first chapter! My father has had watches and fixing them as a life-long hobby, and I'm picking it up as well, so finding a manga like this was so heart-warming. Thank you, scanlator, and I hope you continue working on this.

Pages 15 and 16 are copies of each other, thank you.

 

[_anq]

Fixed, than you.

 

[Moodyz]

Well, you know what they say; "You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation"

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..... *provided you've spent the equivalent of a house having the bloody thing serviced every five years for the rest of your life.

 

[kuachi]

@_anq There's a video by Wired called "Watchmaker Breaks Down Swiss vs Japanese Made Watches". May help you with some of the terminology.

 

[whosaint]

 

[Crab]

A really nice first chapter, thanks for picking this up!

Random trivia: the watch the kid broke is an older model without shock protection; the balance staff (the more specific term for what _anq calls an axle) breaking was a very common problem back then. However, the shock protection of more recent watches is so effective that the balance staff breaking is a very uncommon problem nowadays, which means that many watchmakers don't have much experience replacing it. Making a new balance staff from scratch is a pretty hardcore way to fix the movement, and shows that Kanmuri is very good at her job.

 

[shintan]

I came by to correct some terminology too for readers- a diagram labeled the balance wheel "movement" and of course there is the balance staff already mentioned.

Has anyone been able to identify the watches somewhat? They all seem to be vintage- I'm really impressed with the explanations/diagrams and the detail on the two register chronograph. The girlfriend at the end of chapter 2 has an Omega (50s? 60s?) but that's all I can tell.

 

[BanzaiYuri]

An exquisite Mini Cooper

 

[weleasewodger]

10 to 20 K( Rolex etc) Swiss made watches are nearly all made in Shenzen China. Identical watches made in the same factories with the same parts are sold for 300 to 500 bucks.

Switzerland and their funny made in Switzerland laws...

 

[Probably123]

Can't believe that I only found out about this manga now, I do build watches and mod watches as a hobby, really interesting to see a manga perspective of it

If you want a real life version, this is quite a good video of it

 

[lowarctic]

First watch: Tissot Navigator World Time

 

[Kaarme]

I wonder what decade this is depicting. The car was from the 60's, I'd say, but there's a microscope that looks more like 80's or later, maybe, though I'm not exactly a microscope connoisseur, despite having used them in the past. Maybe they already looked like that in the 60's. Little else to judge in the chapter. The lathe looked 100 years old. I can't even judge the beer since I'm from a country where bottles were heavily supported in the past, with the major shift to cans only happening starting from the late 90's, or something. For all I know, Japan could have sold beer mainly in cans 50 years ago.

 

[LupusVir]

The art of the watch insides is beautiful.

 

[Saury]

I am watch-curious but definitely not an expert. I think the second watch is an old Zenith monopusher chronograph. I am having trouble pasting the pictures in here, but here's a listing for something like it:
https://www.chrono24.com/zenith/zen...n-dial-yellow-gold-18kt-1930s--id38616823.htm
The picture of all the internal components is also precisely what we see in the manga.