'Fess-up!
Was posted up thread but garnered no interest.
I actually love the style and it all sounds well done.
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I have one you can borrow. (Repro)
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That’s the perverse thing. When they started out they were a £1400 piece of fun.
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Ah! Must admit I saw the size and thought “Nah, he won’t, too big”. I love the look.
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Cheers, when I get my finger-out and come and pick those boards-up, I’ll have a borrow, ta 
So WTAF is going on with Ikepod?
They were quite popular at the end of the 90s, priced around the same as GP etc., low thousands IIRC.
They disappeared.
A few years ago I went to an “exhibition” of them which turned out to be some chancers trying to sell remaining stock for north of £10k.
Now I get an ad on Instagram and they’re mid-hundreds of €
Ah, this explains it.
I always liked the Manatee
the Seaslug
and the Megapod (?)
Hard to imagine why watches named after many of the oceans least glamourous creatures and with designs locked firmly in the 90s and 00s would cease to sell at inflated prices…
This can’t have helped:
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The 90s were my kind of people
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With age, I’ve discovered that design needs about thirty years before it becomes unfamiliar enough to become interesting to me again, so I’ll probably be BIG into the late 90s a decade from now (or, more probably, pushing-up the daisies while Edd enjoys my watches… 
).
The music was good though, and the drugs 
This one is (very) long gone. I can remember the guy coming to my flat in Edinburgh to pick it up and I left there 15 years ago.
PAM 117, manual wind, Ti case, lefty.
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And another.
The first Panerai I bought - PAM 28 PVD power reserve.
I have literally no idea what happened to it 
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“Tuxedo” GMT. Low 20s PAM reference I think.
Seem to remember buying it from the US. No idea where it went.
PAM 64 “La Bomba” 1000m.
Absolute flipping menace being so heavy in the first place and that Valjoux rotor wobble threatening to send it into orbit.
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Pre-Vendome Mare Nostrum Slytech.
Sorry about the shitty photo, it was taken in 2001 in the really quite early days of digital photography.
Sold that for about double what I paid. Would probably fetch considerably more now.
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Oh, found some more.
WG 40mm (?) Radiomir with a Zenith Elite movement
No idea on the PAM reference - 60-something?
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There was another Radiomir - quite big, steel case, absolute shitbiscuit of an ETA movement in it. It sounded like grinding sand when you wound. Can’t find any pictures of that at all.
Nope.