Jacob & Co. Astronomia Bucherer BLUELive Auction: 26 July 2022 • 2:00 p.m. EDT • New York
Jacob & Co., Bucherer BLUE, and Sotheby's, are reaching for the stars. The two famed watch companies, celebrated for their innovative and dazzling designs, along with Sotheby's, the world's premier destination for art and luxury, have joined forces in the spirit of exploration to send a special timepiece into the unmapped vastness of space before going up for a charitable auction this summer.
Named the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Bucherer BLUE, the unique watch, a marvel of Swiss craftsmanship and the decorative arts, was the first triple axis tourbillon ever to leave Earth's atmosphere, shuttled on the first private, all-commercial mission into the cosmos.
On April 8, 2022 from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Axiom Space launched a four-person team to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The flight named AX-1, returned off the Florida coast on Monday, April 25. A crew member on this historical mission was Eytan Stibbe, an impact investor and philanthropist, leading the Israeli designed Rakia mission to space. He had the distinction of carrying along the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Tourbillon Bucherer BLUE.
The Rakia mission, along with the Astronomia Tourbillon Bucherer BLUE, spent 17 days 1 hour and 37 minutes in space, as the space creworbited the Earth 273 times at an altitude of 250 miles at nearly 17,500 mph, traveling over 7 million miles in total.
With its return from space, the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Bucherer BLUE is set for public exhibition at Sotheby's New York galleries from July 21-25, before heading to the auction block in a single-dedicated live auction on July 26.
Sotheby's is honored to offer the present lot, without reserve, with proceeds benefiting the Davidson Institute of Science Education, a public nonprofit organization aimed at promoting and nurturing the scientific, mathematical and technological education in Israel.
posted 07-22-2022 05:09 PM
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