The superb Quartime watch from Master Watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin is a remarkable timepiece which disrupts the common perception of time display and instead proposes a unique and novel dissection of the twenty-four hour cycle of the day, handmade in Russia by one of the world's most prodigious watchmaking innovators.
Quartime dissects the day into morning, day, evening and night and portrays the time in an arrangement which is at the same time such a familiar and simplistic concept to us as we go about our everyday lives, and yet one which is foreign to our eyes and confounds the notion of contemporary horological realisation.
Rotating at twice the conventional rate, Quartime's hour hand makes four circuits every day, which is broken into four six-hour periods by way of the jumping day 'phase' disc and hour disc, which flicks back and forth between two positions as the hour hand passes its uppermost zenith.
Encased in 18Kt rose gold Quartime features an immaculately appointed dial with contrasting hand guilloché decoration and gold bordered apertures. Through the sapphire caseback beats the fully in-house conceived and created Calibre KQR 01-3 manual winding movement. Essentially reimagining how the everyday can be interpreted and then engineering that solution, it is another Konstantin Chaykin achievement.
