A 17th century suit of Japanese armor fetched a record $602,500 at an auction in New York on Friday. The successful bid for the Edo Period armor named Honkozane Nimai Do Gusoku—red and blue laced and gold lacquered—marked a new world auction record for Japanese armor, Christie’s said. The armor, estimated at $250,000 to $300,000, was sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The auction was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which a day earlier opened a special exhibition of traditional Japanese weaponry and armor from between the 12th and 19th centuries.