Konstantin Chaykin Lunokhod
The Konstantin Chaykin Lunokhod is an astonishing luxury watch of extraordinary design, dominated by its unique spherical moon phase display and retrograde hours, it is a showcase for the talents of one of the world's most prodigious and respected watchmaking innovators.
The Lunokhod was the name given to Russia's 1970s lunar rover, and its successful deployment on the surface of the moon was a major source of national pride at a time when the space race was at its most intense, and years later the impression it left on Master Watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin would result in his own astonishing tribute to the famous space project.
Lunokhod is a truly unique timepiece in which Konstantin Chaykin has captured a genuinely other-worldly persona with its alien form and the unfamiliar texture of the hand forged wootz steel case. Centre stage sits a dominating sapphire crystal dome and inside the spherical wootz steel moon. A hemispheric rhodium coated silver shell rotates fully around the orb to replicate the phases of the moon in a fabulous 3d display,
Hours and minutes are displayed in separate panels, with the minutes located on a dial beneath the moon and the hours in a semi-circular arc above. The 24 hour display with its gold painted numerals quickly becomes familiar, and the single 'hand' with a sun at one tip and a crescent moon on the other representing am and pm.
