@konstantinchaykin: Many enthusiasts are drawn to Konstantin Chaykin’s inaugural timepiece, the Cinema model, whose very design elicits an instant emotional response. The watch contains a singular complication devised especially for it: a miniature mechanical movie projector. The accompanying video unveils several of the watch’s secrets. In an aperture beneath the dial, shielded by a convex lens, it replays the historic series of photographs of the galloping horse “Sallie Gardner at a Gallop,” taken a century and a half ago by British motionpicture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. To keep every frame sharp during projection, Chaykin equipped the tiny projector with a special shutter. A plastic model of the movement in the video demonstrates its operation: the shutter appears to separate the successive frames of the horse’s movement printed on a rotating disc. To enlarge this disc—and thereby the images—the watchmaker added semicircular protrusions to the rectangular whitegold case. #watchmaking #horology #konstantinchaykin #cinema

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Monday 28 July 2025 11:46:40 GMT