I clearly remember the first time I met Ms. Towa TAKAYA and the impact that I felt when she described her creative vision as "a primitive time that we have almost forgotten, a time that each of us inherently possesses." Rather than simply creating a dial as a work of art, I wanted Ms. Takaya to reconstruct the value of the watch itself through her own ideas and sensibilities. I was convinced that her work would bring a new vision to the JAPAN ART COLLECTION series, which MINASE has been creating together with master artisans. This collaboration came about because Ms. Takaya resonated with the case structure of MINASE's WINDOWS and DIVIDO models, which express the uniquely Japanese concept of "ma" (a spatial-temporal interval or pause integral to Japanese aesthetics ) as a design philosophy. The dials of the MINASE watches that you see here take on different expressions depending on the angle from which you view them, bringing ever-changing emotions to people's hearts. Mechanical watches, for which gears trace the flow of time through the universe, can re-awaken the value of time that each individual possesses. We hope that this thinking will awaken the sense of time etched in your memories.