Luсomorye Clock

Konstantin Chaykin, an inventor, and independent watchmaker devoted much of his life and energy to the creation of complicated mechanical clocks. Many modern watchmakers miss the great opportunity to show out their talents in this traditional watchmaking genre, which began with clocks.

The Foundation Tourbillon Clock table clock, which the master spent almost a year to make (from October 23, 2003, to the end of summer 2004), turned out to be a training option for Chaykin, a little door to the big world of Haute Horlogerie. It was a student masterpiece, a kind of the cornerstone of Chaykin's watch company - the "Konstantin Chaykin" manufacture. Moreover, the numerous difficulties that the amateur watchmaker had to face became a test, of whether or not the watchmaking could become his vocation.

Having made another table tourbillon after the Foundation Tourbillon clock – the Carriage Tourbillon Clock, Konstantin Chaykin realized that, more than creating clocks and watches with classical complications, he was interested in creating pieces with complicated devices that he would rather invent himself. The idea of a clock with an Orthodox Easter date indicator has come all of a sudden and led to the invention and manufacturing of an Easter-themed series of four table clocks, which had no counterparts in the watchmaking world.

In this particular clock, the master realized two versions of the Orthodox Easter date indicator he came up with: a positional design with two perforated disks in the Easter of Christ Computus Clock (2005), and a mechanical design with a hand indicating the Easter date in the Resurrection Computus Clock (2007), and in the updated version of the previous piece — the Northern Computus Clock (2015) and Moscow Computus Clock (2016).

Thanks to Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, the ultra-complicated mechanics of the Lucomorye table clock received a unique, chic, and exquisite jewelry design. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, a famous master of jewelry "with the story", quickly managed to find a successful idea that completed the composition. The image of Pushkin's 'Lucomorye', including the learned Cat, the mermaid, Chernomor, as well as the Oak, the hut perched on chicken legs, stones, and the sea waves smashing against them, created by the master, threatened to turn the composition into a set of disparate elements - a real nightmare for an artist. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov solved this problem, which is considered to be common for all multi-figured compositions, by introducing a unifying visual rhythm. According to his plan, the rhythm can be traced both in the lower ridge of faceted stones fighting the waves, and in the crown of a wonderful oak, which is broken into many plates - the outlines of the same stones are unmistakable. The base of the crown is a spatial structure of many elements that resemble oak leaves, jade plates with carved leaf contours attached. Each plate is fixed in castes, which are decorated with oak leaves and acorns, made in the technique of hot cloisonné enamel. Another element with the same rhythm is the oak trunk, decorated with Australian boulder opals and Ethiopian fiery opals. Multi-colored reflections and the way light falls on opals give the whole composition a sense of miracle and mystery.

Ilgiz Fazulzyanov had to use all his experience to bring his plan to life. And yet, the work proved to be extremely difficult even for his talent. Problems arose both because of the composition's complexity, and also because it was necessary to use many components, the unusually large size of which required the adaptation of seemingly tried and tested production methods.

Nevertheless, talking is one thing, doing is another, the inevitable technical problems have been solved, and the Lucomorye clock, a new masterpiece of jewelry and Haute Horlogerie, has finally been completed. It took more than six years to finish, and the result is impressive.