Konstantin Chaykin 'Mouse King' wrist-roll

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In late January this year, Konstantin Chaykin announced the release of the Mouse King watch. The source of inspiration for the creation of the new "Wristmon" watch was the idea to connect the theme of the Chinese zodiac animal with the fairy tale of the Mouse King. The official presentation of the watch was originally envisaged to take place at the end of April 2020 at BaselWorld-2020, however, due to the pandemic the world's leading watch exhibition has been canceled. Therefore, the Russian master decided to devote more time to the new project in order to perfect all its details. According to Konstantin Chaykin, the result was worth the effort - the finished watch turned out to be more interesting and attractive than the initial prototype.
Thanks to the careful finishing of the dial, the mouse nose, decorated with a relief guilloche pattern, unexpectedly began to look as if it were really covered with fur, the linear relief worked just as well in finishing the character's whiskers. The lugs of the case, made in the form of the mouse ears, are one of the most impressive design details. For the first time, such a technique was tested in the Unique Pig watch, released by the beginning of 2019 on the Chinese calendar, but there the character's ears were milled on the lugs of the case of the standard shape, here the lugs of the case were shaped like the mouse ears. This detail is harmoniously combined with the dial, made in the form of the mouse face, and with another unique styling part of this watch - the crown, which, according to Konstantin Chaykin's idea, was supposed to look like the crown of the Mouse King.
The watch term “crown”, (in French ‘couronne’ and in German ‘Krone’), had given him a long-term desire to create a watch with a crown in the 12-o’clock position. This acts as a reminder of the earlier period of the development of wristwatches, in which some watches positioned a Lépine-type movement as the crown at the top of the dial. The Mouse King watch is the first watch in the history of watchmaking when a watch has been crowned with a real royal “crown”, Konstantin Chaykin decided that the crown should be made of 18-carat gold and adorned with a genuine ruby. The royal crown appears once again in watch design - in the rotor of the automatic winding system.
The imposing character of the Mouse King watch is underlined by another extraordinary detail - a high-quality leather strap with an ermine mantle designed by Konstantin Chaykin especially for this watch.