The Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts”

You don’t notice you need it in the event you can’t think about it. Fortunately, free-spirited watch manufacturers like Konstantin Chaykin and Behrens have monumental creativeness. Once they collaborate, they attain new ranges of watch insanity. These two manufacturers labored collectively for the primary time three years in the past and have joined forces once more to create one thing that completely combines their types. The light-weight trapezoidal watch with a caricaturist face is known as the Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts,” and this clear creation comes out in several colours and supplies — titanium, black and white carbon, and pink and lightweight blue sapphire.

When you’ve got seen the watch, you’ll bear in mind it. In 2022, Chinese language model Behrens and Russian model Konstantin Chaykin teamed as much as create the “Ace of Spades.” The watch had a spherical case made from hanging crystallized titanium, and on the dial, Chaykin’s immediately recognizable Joker face from his playful Wristmons collection took heart stage. Three years later, the 2 manufacturers push the boundaries with one other charming watch, proving that, typically, 1 + 1 = 3.

Introducing the Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” in three supplies

The Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” is bigger than the sum of its elements. As you may know, I’m a fan of the Behrens Extremely-Mild 11G. And though I received’t take into account myself a fan of Chaykin’s model, I do recognize his originality, and the open-worked Joker “Fiat Lux” is my favourite of his Wristmons. One thing transcends each watch manufacturers’ attribute creations when the ideas come collectively. The Behrens Extremely-Mild trapezoidal 42 × 37mm trapezoidal case appears to be the proper body to carry a barely disturbing mechanical portrait to life. Due to the case form and the big open areas across the face, the “Ace of Hearts” presents itself with a hypnotizing and barely menacing look in its eyes.

Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” in titanium

Time is within the eye of the beholder

The “Ace of Hearts” is an announcement and a transportable objet d’artwork, but it surely’s additionally a watch that may inform you what time it’s. How? The left eye tells the hour with a round indicator on an oval chapter ring. Equally, the suitable eye comprises a dot that strikes alongside a observe to indicate the minutes. There’s additionally a seconds hand. It’s contained in the mouth at 6 o’clock, and it reveals a pink heart-shaped tip. And there’s extra. The furrowed forehead at 12 o’clock holds the facility reserve indicator.

The face comes alive as a result of the Behrens emblem sits within the left eye and Konstantin Chaykin’s is in the suitable eye. The latter appears to wink at you in a mildly disturbing means. At nighttime, issues get significantly creepy as a result of there’s luminous materials in all the suitable locations to indicate the form of the face, and the glowing eyes begin observing you very intensely.

The in-house Behrens caliber BM07 powers all this horological folly. It’s a manual-winding motion that boasts 11 patents and offers 46 hours of energy reserve. The minimalist color-coordinated motion is a formidable piece of micromechanics. It reveals brushed plates, mirror-polished pivots, and angled chamfers. Caliber BM07 is just not solely a micromachine but in addition the central aesthetic factor and, fairly actually, the beating coronary heart of the Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts.”

Variations and costs

Appreciating watches made by both Behrens or Konstantin Chaykin requires an open thoughts. That is experimental horology aimed toward nonconformists. Behrens, particularly, could be seen as a gateway to avant-garde Haute Horlogerie, typically named Nouvelle Horlogerie. On this enjoyable and fabulous realm, manufacturers like MB&F and Urwerk are masters of the universe. However they function on a degree that’s out of attain for a lot of. The Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” can be not an entry-level luxurious watch per se within the conventional market. Nonetheless, within the wondrous, boundaryless world of Nouvelle Horlogerie, it acts as a gatekeeper.

Black carbon

Mild blue sapphire

“Ace of Hearts” at midnight

Pink sapphire

The colour-coordinated motion

White carbon

The Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” is a restricted version supplied in three case supplies — light-weight Grade 5 titanium (600 watches, US$7,500), Behrens’s propriety carbon fiber SPSCF compound (150 items every in black or white, US$9,200), and translucent artificial sapphire (80 in blue and 20 in pink, US$13,600). For extra data and availability of the completely different Behrens × Konstantin Chaykin “Ace of Hearts” fashions, click on right here.

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