Yoshitomo Nara x Citizen Slash With A Knife Wristwatch 1999, Independent Line, Limited To 500 Pieces
Yoshitomo Nara x Citizen Slash With A Knife Wristwatch 1999, Independent Line, Limited To 500 Pieces
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A guide for this piece: about $349, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
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Condition report
Honest Wear
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- Honest Wear
- As Found
Time kept by a scowl
For the Nara collector or the watch enthusiast who likes a dial with attitude.
Best for: Yoshitomo Nara collections
Condition notes
Scratches and marks to the case and visible wear and staining to the leather strap. Battery exhausted; function untested.
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The 1999 watch Yoshitomo Nara made with Citizen: his scowling girl fills the dial, with the time read through a window beside her face.
The Piece
Nara's girl from Slash with a Knife occupies the dial edge to edge, her sidelong glare cut by an aperture that shows the hours and minutes. The round steel case is broad and unadorned, the strap a tan leather with a steel buckle, and the lower dial carries the Independent mark of Citizen's design line of the period.
The watch was issued in an edition of 500 worldwide. The battery is exhausted and the movement has not been tested, so it is offered as a collector's piece.
Yoshitomo Nara Beyond the Canvas
From the late 1990s Yoshitomo Nara let his children and dogs leave the canvas: as vinyl figures, ashtrays, watches and books made with small Japanese and American firms, often in short runs. He treated these objects as part of the work rather than as merchandise, and many carry his drawn line or his signature moulded in. They were, and survivors in good order are now collected alongside the prints.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara
- Maker: Citizen, Independent line
- Model: Slash with a Knife
- Year: 1999
- Edition: Limited to 500
- Strap: Tan leather with steel buckle
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- Scratches and marks to the case and visible wear and staining to the leather strap.
- Battery exhausted; function untested.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade C (worn) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Maker, date and edition are as the photographs show; nothing has been opened, serviced or restored by the house. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan with rigid protection and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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