Independents

A debut of the latest inventions of the famous Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin will take place at the exhibition BaselWorld 2012 (8-15th March, Basel). In the run-up to this significant event Konstantin Chaykin hurries to announce a creation of a ne...  

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to more info too. Hope you are visiting his booth, Magnus. Kong

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Looking forward on the movement's details ... though not my type of dial lay out yet i find it interesting Faisal

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Looking forward to seeing these in person...

Wonder if he will be represented here or traveling over this region too. Would like to see in person too Are you going to Basel? Kong

Not going to Basel, but will pay attention to his watches when he comes to visit here.

Baselworld 2011: Fx...  

shape and upper hour-moon indicator Thanks FX. Kong

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Might be interesting to see the new mystery watch in a more elegant case/dial combo, but I already like this version -- and the new version of his original watch is far superior, in my view. Thanks for sharing! Best, Gary G

Is this have an equation of time indicator plus day night indicator In this setting we see hour and night overlapping? Very interesting. Thanks for clarifying.

Hi 4Js I think it is a 24-hour retrograde indicator only. From the picture, it is indicating 11:35am... the Crescent -pointer is in between the 11th and 12th hour. Once reaches 12:00, the Crescent-retrograde-Indicator should snap back below the '0' hour-m... 

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I like the way he has placed the movement in the Mistery, and with a moonphase indicator included, cool. Thanks, Vte

will be interesting to see how he hides the plantary gearing of the hour & minute discs. Or he is using another approach. Kong

Kong, Any idea whether it is a newly constructed movement? It looks like the dial is covered by a layer which has transparent effect. Regards Ling

sapphire discs. He is a member of Academie Horlogere des Createurs Independants, I guess it should be his creation. Kong

And a delightful moonphase watch! Thanks for the post Kong! Stephen

A nice modern interpretation of the Armand Schwob movement from the late 1880's I like these mysterious watches a lot when they are on display (when on the wrist, the effect of wrist hair showing through the clear dial sometimes loses the elegance of the ...  

for the Armand Schwob movement pic. The re-intepretation with a moonphase added is pretty good with such tight space constraint. Kong