Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 34

Ikepod Watch Co., Mark Newson Design, No. 001/999, ?Isopode Chronometer?. Made in the 2000s. Fine and unusual, flying saucer-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, date and an Ikepod black rubber strap with snap-fastening system. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, flying saucer-shaped, brushed, back with offset glazed porthole to view the balance, chronograph buttons with orange lacquer inserts, domed sapphire crystal. D. Engineturned gold with outer fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, date aperture between 4 and 5. Sand-blasted luminous gold hands. M. Cal. ETA2892 with Dubois Depraz chronograph module, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial and case signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.