Konstantin Chaykin Presents Cinema Timepiece with Animation

Independent watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin, who develops and produces original watches, has recently announced the completion of work over a unique novelty, called Cinema. The gorgeous model will be first presented at the international exhibition of watches and jewelry BaselWorld 2013.

Konstantin Chaykin Presents Cinema Timepiece with Animation

The novelty is devoted to Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer and inventor who is considered one of the ancestors of modern cinema. He first made a series of photographs of a galloping horse at different points in its motion. Muybridge is an inventor of zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting films, which existed before the celluloid film. It is thanks to this device, the horse is able to "recover" - rapidly shifting images create the effect of the animals’ motion.
The master said, "Clocks with animation are known to mankind since ancient times. As at the time the theater became the basis for the creation of feature films, as a classic watch with jaquemarts allowed arisen a new trend – a watch with the cinema. The potential of the idea is limitless and experiments in this area are just beginning."

Cinema Timepiece with Animation by Konstantin Chaykin

The novelty Cinema has a rectangular case, made of stainless steel treated with the use of polishing, buffing and satin. The dial with the design resembles an old camera lens. Scales of the hours and minutes indicating are made in the form of rings of the lens. The original dial is guilloché and coated with black lacquer. At the 6 o’clock position is a circular aperture, which opens with the image of a running horse with a rider.
On the sides of the case are symmetrically arranged a crown and a button on the animation function. Thanks to the back of the transparent cover is visible the work of a non-standard caliber. The novelty is equipped with two mechanisms: the watch movement and the animation mechanism, which is similar to the design of the zoopraxiscope. During power of animation, the watch is kind of a little film - a galloping horse with a rider.

Cinema watch caseback

The mechanism with the Maltese cross scrolls the disc coated with a 12th galloping horse images in different phases of movement. To avoid blurring when moving the frame into the mechanism is inserted an obturator - a small curtain that covers the picture at the beginning of its movement. Changing frames of animation occurs 0.07 seconds. The obturator works with the same speed.
The caliber KCM 01-0, collected on the 31 jewels, has a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour, 48-hour power reserve.
The model Cinema comes on a black leather strap.
P.S. At the first time in the history of photography, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge began to use multiple cameras simultaneously.

Official site of Konstantin Chaykin.

Written by Angel