The booth concept was dedicated to multidisciplinarity: Chaykin’s iconic watches and paintings, placed in a single space, revealed the artist’s creative process. According to the idea, works of high horology appeared as art objects, while the paintings served as a metaphor for the author’s consciousness. Unlike a watch, where an idea undergoes engineering development and team‑based production, a painting captures the artist’s immediate reflection. Each of these canvases contains its own microcosm, a horological universe, and the author’s inner dialogue.
Among the paintings presented at the fair were “Ahasuerus”, “Autumn”, “Goddess of Tempo”, “Sedmitsa”, as well as a reproduction of “Dormouse”, whose original sold at auction for 18 million rubles. Each of the artist’s paintings is a frozen blueprint of his inner world. In addition to the canvases and sketches, the master also showed a new limited‑edition model of the world’s thinnest mechanical wristwatch — The Riddle of the Thin King.
The backbone of the exhibition was also formed by blueprints, which Konstantin Chaykin showed for the first time. The sketches represent the empirical starting point of the author’s mechanical code — the very place where future watches and paintings are first born.
