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.