Collection Tourbillon Clock

The tourbillon is seen as the symbol of haute horlogerie, a measure of professionalism in watchmaking, and a challenge for any brand deciding to develop its own. More than fifteen years ago a talented Russian inventor was inspired to create complex mechanical watches in Russia. He started without any funding and without a single watchmaking school in the country, having to rely only on himself. This inventor was Konstantin Chaykin and his first, and most fundamental, timepiece was a table tourbillon, the first clock with a tourbillon invented in Russia for 175 years.

1. Starting with the most difficult, Konstantin Chaykin was inspired by the fact that at that moment nobody was making tourbillons in Russia, and likewise nobody had been doing so in Soviet times either. The “Tourbillon 55 Clock” collection was created to evoke a real breakthrough in Russian clockmaking, which few believed could be revived. Under the “12 o’clock” position, in a special aperture of the dial, the tourbillon’s measuredly rotating “vortex”, with a second hand on the carriage, is the heir to Konstantin Chaykin’s first tourbillon created with its own titanium carriage.
2. Konstantin Chaykin began constructing the first 100% Russian tourbillon in an incredibly long time on October 23rd 2003. That moment is considered as the birth of his watchmaking operation – the Konstantin Chaykin Manufactory.
3. On the dial of the “Tourbillon 55 Clock” one can not find a marker in the “11 o’clock” position, rather two beautifully-placed fives – “55”. Does it mean the festive New Year’s Eve moment, five minutes to midnight, when it’s time to raise your glasses to welcome the New Year? Or is it a numerological code for the date Konstantin Chaykin began working on his first tourbillon?
4. The answer lies in the clockmaker’s hobby of his youth. Since childhood Konstantin Chaykin has been interested in various complex devices. The most obtainable of these were old radios, and the future inventor spent hours disassembling, studying and reconfiguring them. This led him to his choice of professional education – he went on to gain a degree in Radio Engineering at the St. Petersburg College of Telecommunications. Therefore, when developing the design of a table clock with tourbillon, he remembered how he had been involved in amateur radio communications, and encoded in the clock a friendly “hello”, to the world, to friends, to everyone who understands and smiles back – “55” in the language of amateur radio means a friendly handshake.