Okonstantin Chaykin has created a remarkably skinny mechanical watch utilizing an structure that requires constructing the motion into the caseback.
Like many current ultra-thin wristwatch designs — from Bulgari, Piaget, and Richard Mille — not like conventional mechanical timepieces, the Wristmon ThinKing caseback and motion principal plate are the identical.
At 1.65 mm in thickness x 40 mm in diameter (13.3 grams with out the strap), the hardened stainless-steel case is amongst the thinnest on this planet, although technically it’s nonetheless a prototype. Coming from a small impartial model that has nowhere close to the R&D price range of the three aforementioned manufacturers, is not any small feat and Konstantin Chaykin utilized for 3 patents associated to this watch design (1- ultra-thin winding barrel, double stability wheel, and an ultra-thin strap with elastic inserts and titanium helps built-in into the alligator leather-based strap).
With the Wristmon eyes representing the hours (left) and minutes (proper), this regulator-style show has been created with the everyday Konstantin Chaykin Joker theme, albeit extra refined than the full-color designs the corporate is understood for. Every eye/time show is protected by a sapphire crystal that’s simply 0.35 mm in thickness. Curiously, this double-dial versus single-dial design will increase the rigidity of the timepiece (and is just like how Richard Mille’s ultra-thin timepiece is made).
Rigidity is such a difficulty with ultra-thin watches beneath 2 mm in thickness, that Konstantin Chaykin created a strap meant to scale back strain on the case and motion. Additional, the ThinKing is delivered with an exterior service case to assist remedy maybe the most important downside of ultra-thin watches — the low rigidity of their case. Moreover, the caliber Ok.23-0 motion will be manually wound by way of a key or by the service that attaches to the again and may mechanically wind the motion (makes the watch 5.4mm thick).
The Wristmon ThinKing energy reserve, working frequency, water resistance score, and value have all been omitted. That is nonetheless a conceptual prototype and isn’t on the market — so for now, at 1.70 mm, the Octo Finissimo Extremely COSC remains to be technically the king of skinny.
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