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The elements are moving and the scene lasts for around 2 minutes! By the push of a button on the case at 8 o’clock, the Joker’s eyes, the dog, the man and the lady are in motion. This has been made possible thanks to the hundreds of hours spent by craftsmen. On the back of the timepiece, every element of the scene has been cut, polished and painted by hand. Both logos and the text “Andersen Chaykin” have been hand engraved by a master engraver in Geneva. The dial of the Automaton Joker tells time like no other timepiece, thanks to the Joker’s eyes and, moon phase displayed in the mouth! To underline this Collaboration Konstantin Chaykin’s logo has been placed on top of the eyes while ANDERSEN Genève’s logo can be seen on the nose of the Joker. With the help of Konstantin Chaykin’s knowhow, a unique way of telling time appears on the front dial. It is now playing Poker with Konstantin Chaykin’s Joker & special guests!Īndersen Genève, being very famous for Eros Automaton’s, created the first timepiece with a poker game scene on the back dial: the Automaton Joker.

One of the Dogs from the Montre à Tact 'Poker' from Andersen Genève ended up on a new Table. Nine of them were depicting dogs playing Poker. Its miniature painting scene on the dial shows a scene of “Dogs playing Poker”.īetween 19, this American artist of the Belle Epoque created 16 oil-paintings of dogs in human poses. Andersen Genève “Montre à Tact” Poker is inspired by “A Bold Bluff”, a painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. This exclusive timepiece gained recognition within watch collectors immediately. How it all started for the Andersen-Chaykin 'Automaton Joker' !Īt Baselworld 2017, Konstantin Chaykin presented the Joker timepiece with its exclusive way of telling time, thanks to the eyes of the Joker! On top of that the moon phase is indicated on the dial at six o’clock, in the mouth of the Joker. This timepiece is the first collaboration between the co-founder of the AHCI (Académie des Horlogers Indépendants) Svend Andersen and the current President of the AHCI, Konstantin Chaykin. In 2018 those two high end watchmaking companies joined forces and developed the “Automaton Joker”. Konstantin runs his own manufacture and has registered over 70 patents for his innovative movements and inventions in general mechanics: a unique achievement for a young watchmaker in a world of century-old manufacturing. Each creation is based on detailed handwork resulting in perfection. The Manufacture focuses on three main areas: designing and making clocks and watches, making timepieces to order and inventing own movements with complications. It is the absolute leader in the luxury watch segment of the modern watch and watchmaking industry in Russia. The ‘Konstantin Chaykin’ Manufacture is the only Russian company producing unique, high end mechanical watches with own calibers. Konstantin Chaykin himself knows and loves the history of Russia in general and the history of fine watchmaking in Russia. 'pièces uniques' manufactured in collaboration with watch collectorsġ5 years ago, Konstantin Chaykin, armed only with books and drawings, built the first ever Russian clock with a flying tourbillon thus modern fine watchmaking was re-born in Russia. 'Hautes Complications' – Perpetuel Secular Calender 20th Anniversary or Minute Repeater or Jumping Hours etc.

Watches with multiple time zones – World Time watches (Tempus Terrae Collection) 'Automaton' that offer very complicated (Erotical) Automatons on the back of the watch with bespoke dials possibilities

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'Montre à Tact' (without hands) where one can read time in a small window between the lugs thus leaving free personalization of the dial with miniature-painting or hand 'guillochage' Today’s watch collection is composed of the following models He created many annual and perpetuel calenders and even the secular perpetuel calender. He holds world records such as the smallest lady annual calender, the smallest perpetuel calender, the thinnest world time watch ever produced among others. Since 1980 Svend Andersen has been manufacturing complicated timepieces and 'pièces uniques' for watch collectors.