Ikepod Chronopod 'White Horse'

Ikepod has never had much interest in making a conventional chronograph. The Chronopod White Horse takes all the familiar ingredients of three registers, pushers, a date, and a timing scale and drops them into the brand’s unmistakable flying-saucer architecture. The result is functional, graphic, and just odd enough to be pure Ikepod.

Designed by Emmanuel Gueit, the White Horse is particularly sharp in this nearly monochromatic configuration. A matte white dial is punctuated by black baton markers and three subtly recessed registers: a 24-hour display at 3 o’clock, 60-minute chronograph counter at 9, and running seconds at 6. A circular date aperture appears between 4 and 5 o’clock. Then comes the fun part: bright orange hour and minute hands  (and pusher ends!) inject a flash of color into an otherwise almost clinical design.

The brushed 316L stainless-steel case measures 44mm, but as with most Ikepods, that number is somewhat deceptive. The absence of conventional lugs and the way the integrated black silicone strap tucks beneath the case allow it to wear closer to a traditional 41mm watch. A sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating protects the dial, while water resistance is rated to 50 meters.

Inside is a dependable Japanese Miyota quartz chronograph movement. It’s an intentionally pragmatic engine for a watch whose real complication is its design. This example comes with its original recycled Ikepod boxes and paperwork. Crisp, graphic, and wonderfully strange, the White Horse feels like an Ikepod dressed in laboratory whites, with just enough orange to remind you that things are never quite that serious around here. This U.F.O. inspo watch is F.U.N. 

Following his graduation from Sydney College of the Arts, budding industrial designer Marc Newson turned his recent studies in jewelry and sculpture into the the Large Pod Watch — a 60mm, aluminum-cased behemoth devoid of any extraneous ornamentation and paired to a rubber strap. A harbinger of things to come, this timepiece would form the aesthetic underpinnings of a brand Newson founded with Oliver Ike in 1994, called Ikepod.

Though the company was only a modest success in the 1990s, its watches — which presaged the ‘large watch’ trend of the late 1990s/early 2000s — would subsequently become cult classics. The Hemipode, which measures 44mm in diameter, cemented the firm as an innovator by marrying a large, monobloc case to an automatic movement that powered various compilations: a chronograph, a chronograph with GMT, and a chronograph with a large date window at 12 o’clock. Costing over $10,000 in gold, they ushered in the era of the high-end independent.

Today, Ikepod is no longer helmed by Newson and Ike — owned by Swiss investors, the new Ikepod watches are made in Hong Kong and are powered by Japanese-made quartz movements. However, strong horological clout remains, with design duties having been taken over by Emmanuel Gueit, who conceived Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Offshore. Original, Newson-era models are, of course, highly collectible; forward-thinking, envelope-pushing objects, they’re reflective of the singular genius of the award-winning Aussie designer.

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