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Konstantin Chaykin is a Russian watchmaker and inventor. He started as an independent watchmaker in 2003, establishing a workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the interests of the business, in 2012 he transferred production to Moscow, Russia, where his company currently resides. He completed his first clock in 2004, and in 2008 Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI, English: "Academy of Independent Creators in Watchmaking") accepted him as a candidate. Since 2010 he has been a member of the AHCI (the only such member from Russia ), while in 2016 he was elected by AHCI members as the President, a position held until 2019.

Inventions
Konstantin Chaykin’s first patent, RU2306618, granted to him in January 2007, protects the design of an Orthodox Easter date indicator. That has been followed by numerous other inventions, and as of May 2021, he owns 89 patents. In April 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) through an application of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Russia) (Rospatent) awarded Konstantin Chaykin the WIPO Medal for Inventors for his contribution in the field of Technical Sciences in the Russian Federation.

Complicated clocks
In 2003–2004, he built the Foundation tourbillon clock, the first of its kind in Russia. He is the creator of several notable complicated astronomical table clocks, including four Orthodox computus clocks – the Easter of Christ Computus Clock (2005), Resurrection Computus Clock (2007), Northern Computus Clock (2015) and Moscow Computus Clock (2016), all developed based on his patents. The Moscow Computus Clock, with 27 complications and mechanisms, 2,506 movement parts, four dials and over 2,500 components in the case, is regarded as the most complicated clock ever created in Russia.

Wristwatches
Konstantin Chaykin produces handcrafted wristwatches based on his patents and designs, including the Lunokhod with a large spherical moonphase indicator (2011), Levitas gentlemen’s and ladies’ watches, with transparent mysterious dials (2013), timepieces with traditional calendars – including those based on the Jewish (Decalogue collection ) and Islamic (Hijra collection ) calendars; the mechanical cinematograph Cinema  watch (2013), the Genius Temporis watch able to display hours and minutes using a single hand (2014), and other notable timepieces. with the Joker watch, he launched the Wristmons (Monsters on the Wrist ) collection. In 2018, with the Clown Wristmon watch, Chaykin won the Audacity prize of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG). His Joker Selfie piece unique sold for 70,000 Swiss francs from an estimate of 18,000–24,000 francs on November 9, 2019, at the Only Watch 2019 charity auction held in Geneva by Christie’s. Recently he has developed timepieces with a Mars time and other cosmic functions, the Mars Conqueror Mk1 (2018) and Mars Conqueror Mk3 Fighter (2020).