Lunokhod Prototype movement by Konstantin Chaykin - BASELWORLD 2011

Konstantin Chaykin Lunokhod Prototype movement. LUNOKHOD It is not far off when the lights will go on in all the six halls of Messe Basel fairgrounds, and for a few days a small Swiss city will become Clock Mecca. International exhibition fair of watch and jewelry Baselworld 2011 starts on March 24, but participants prepare for a long time. And most of them can tell you today about the updates they are going to take to the court of international experts. Russia in the Basel exhibition will be presented by some jewelry and watch companies, among which a member of the Académie Horlogère Des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) Konstantin Chaykin holds a special place. Maestro, who has been surprising the world watch community with his unusual findings in watchmaking for several years, is preparing a real exclusive for the Basel Show. His new creation is mechanical watch with a new solution of lunar phases indication. Konstantin Chaykin managed to bring to perfection one of the most romantic watch complications. In his hands comes the most lively and realistic watch Moon in the world. Instead of using the classic indicator window through which a stylized image of the moon is usually shown maestro placed in his new watch a miniature copy of the Earth satellite. The ball is 12 mm in diameter, it is coated with the relief of the lunar surface and located in the center of the dial, and lunar phases are indicated by means of covering it up with mobile silver hemisphere. This...