Konstantin Chaykin
Chaykin-watchmaker increasingly sees himself as a Chaykin-artist, who dreams, fantasizes and creates a parallel universe inhabited by phantoms of the high art of watchmaking.
Artist
As a child, I drew, like many children do, - recalls Konstantin. - At least, my parents really liked how I did it. After demobilization, I had the opportunity to enter the Repin Institute of Painting without entrance exams, and I seriously considered this option. Domestic circumstances made adjustments. Having returned and having had fun for a couple of months, I realized that I didn’t really want to sit on my parents’ necks. I needed money, I had to earn it somehow.
Konstantin Chaykin
Konstantin Chaykin gave up the idea of becoming an artist, but still, whenever he has any free time, he picks up a pencil or brushes with oil. He always has a Moleskine notebook at hand, and in his office there is a solid Mabeuf studio easel. He draws mainly what he is most passionate about in life - watches, watchmaker's tools. He saves, sketching on paper - mainly on the pages of his preferred Moleskines - watches, mechanisms, functional units and parts of new designs that he has just invented.
In recent years, one can observe how three directions of his work as an artist are taking shape: sketches of watches, and only a few of them are destined to be embodied in metal; artistic sketches of watches, again both realized and remaining only on paper; independent paintings, of which there are clearly more. Chaykin the watchmaker increasingly sees himself as Chaykin the artist.
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Konstantin Chaykin’s “Autumn” sketch sold for CHF 21,000 at the Phillips charity auction
On September 6, during the Geneva Watch Days, the traditional charity auction by Phillips, organized in partnership with Bacs & Russo, was held in support of the École d’Horlogerie de Genève, the oldest watchmaking school in Switzerland.
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE! 12 JUNE – 16 NOVEMBER 2025, PAVILION NO. 53, SPECIAL PURPOSE GARAGE MUSEUM, VDNH
Visitors will encounter rare masterpieces of horology drawn from the collections of the State Historical Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Russian History, the Polytechnic Museum, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Moscow. Exhibits include mantel and sundial clocks, marine chronometers and elusive pocket watches once owned by revolutionaries, statesmen and scientists, alongside presentation timepieces gifted to leaders of past eras.
