Independents

BaselWorld 2011, AHCI Konstantin Chaykin

 

AHCI member Konstantin Chaykin is showing his new Lunokhod watch this year.
I don't know where to start for the description of this watch, so much is out of the ordinary.

The central position is occupied by a big 12mm rotating lunar phase indication.  The sphere is fixed and a hood rotates around it to make the moon phases.
The the hours are shown on a concentric scale, day and night by sun and moon pointers respectively.
The watch is made of "Wootz" steel, a very high carbon steel invented in India around 300BC.
It is patterned in layers somwhat in the manner of a damascus steel.

The Lunokhod was a Russian moon rover that was launched in 1970.  An appropriate name for a big moon watch in UFO form.

Mr. Chaykin himself is wearing his Jewish hours watch introduced last year.