Ikepod is not a watch brand like the others, so much the good fairies of time once leaned over its cradle: what other can boast of having been created by a legendary designer such as Marc Newson?
Or to count in its collections both the ancestor of the Apple Watch and pieces signed by big names in contemporary art such as Kaws?
Ikepod will have created the first concept watch in 1994 with the Pod.
With his friend Oliver Ike, Newson in his time dynamized the watchmaking style, between a Solaris with a rectangular dial and a perfectly round Hemipode with a rubber strap.
Creations worn by both Jeff Koons and Kanye West and which have contributed to bringing the watchmaker into the contemporary era.
If the Apple Watch, the first Apple project of the post Steve Jobs era, was born in 2005, Ikepod was suddenly abandoned by Mark Newson.
It will end up being put to sleep in 2012, and relaunched a few years later via Kickstarter by a…
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