About the exhibit
In this early blueprint, Konstantin Chaykin works out the front side of the ‘Stargazer’ ultra-complicated watch on paper. The sheet shows faint axial lines marking the symmetry of the future dial, cross-hatching on the strap and case, and a handwritten note bearing the model's name. Through this drawing, Chaykin realises the principle of the blueprint as the primary form of thought. Before the viewer is the very moment when the anthropomorphic dial is only beginning to take shape.
The blueprint already shows all the key features of the future ‘Stargazer’ watch. Two side subdials become eyes. A small central subdial becomes a nose. The curved running line of the movement becomes a mouth, drawn into a broad smile. This side of the highly complicated movement reads as a face even before it takes its finished form in metal. Double lugs for attaching the strap, visible on either side of the case, point to the possibility of wearing the watch with either side facing up. The movement will be granted not one face but two equal faces, two independent Horological Archetypes within a single case. Stars, scattered across the bezel in pencil hatching, anticipate the model's future name. The sheet's own drafting structure, with its intersecting construction lines and live corrections, makes visible not the result but the very process of inventive translation, carrying an engineering idea into an anthropomorphic image.
Cycle: Universum ‘Horological Graphic Art’
The blueprint already shows all the key features of the future ‘Stargazer’ watch. Two side subdials become eyes. A small central subdial becomes a nose. The curved running line of the movement becomes a mouth, drawn into a broad smile. This side of the highly complicated movement reads as a face even before it takes its finished form in metal. Double lugs for attaching the strap, visible on either side of the case, point to the possibility of wearing the watch with either side facing up. The movement will be granted not one face but two equal faces, two independent Horological Archetypes within a single case. Stars, scattered across the bezel in pencil hatching, anticipate the model's future name. The sheet's own drafting structure, with its intersecting construction lines and live corrections, makes visible not the result but the very process of inventive translation, carrying an engineering idea into an anthropomorphic image.
Time is not merely a measure. It is a philosophical dimension, an inexhaustible source of inspiration, and the central subject of my art universe.
