In the upcoming sale of important watches of Hong Kong on April 23, Sotheby's will present an outstanding watch from the series SPYMASTER, the first watch series accompanied by NFT, unique cryptographic tokens that provide an immutable record of where every watch on the blockchain came from.
The result of a collaboration between the New York-based museum and experience pioneers SPYSCAPE and watchmaking pioneers Ressence, the series SPYMASTER is a limited edition of 21 titanium watches handmade in Switzerland. Watch the number 008#, estimated US$21.000 – 38.000, will be offered at auction to help bring life-changing wishes to critically ill children, through Make-A-Wish® UK.
Ressence founder Benoit Mintiens worked with the SPYSCAPE team to develop a watch that combines an understated aesthetic (with the proprietary 'SPYSCAPE Redacted' font) with an endlessly intriguing movement – in which the main disc and sub-dials rotate as moons orbiting a planet – echoing the ever-changing face of time itself. This patented “Ressence Orbital Convex System” is an avant-garde horological complication driven by the minute axis of a custom self-winding calibre.
SPYMASTER 008# is accompanied by an NFT, a computer-generated video artwork that celebrates the shape and materials of the watch. Minted on the Ethereum blockchain, this non-fungible token provides an immutable record of authenticity and provenance for each of the 21 limited edition SPYMASTER works.
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