Konstantin Chaykin has spent years giving watches the faces of monsters, and for Louis Erard he builds one around a single eye.
Louis Erard introduces Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Konstantin Chaykin, a one-eyed Likho from Slavic tales. It comes with a purple hour circle on the 39mm and a green one on the 42mm, each limited to 178 pieces, and as a diptych box set of 28.
Chaykin kept the architecture of Louis Erard’s regulator, with central minutes, the hour at noon and the seconds at six o’clock. The hour becomes a large round eye. The small seconds turn in a disc with pointed teeth, like the mouth of an ogre, and the minute hand crosses the dial as the creature’s arm.
“I remembered Francisco Goya and his Saturn devouring one of his sons. I thought of a Stephen King short story, The Langoliers, time eaters,” Chaykin explains.
A black toad leather strap completes the character. For once, Louis Erard says, it is the time that is looking at us.
The Basics
Brand: Louis Erard x Konstantin Chaykin
Model: Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Konstantin Chaykin
Reference: 85248AA89.BGA091 (39mm, purple); 85237AA88.BGA088 (42mm, green)
Diameter: 39mm (purple); 42mm (green)
Case material: Polished stainless steel; see-through case back; domed sapphire crystal
Dial: Silver lower plate with sunray wave pattern; shiny purple or green hour circle; shiny red seconds flange
Water resistance: 5 bars (50 m/165 ft)
Strap: Black toad leather, purple or green attachment points and rabbit leather lining; steel pin buckle
Limited edition: 178 pieces per version; diptych box set of 28
The Movement
Calibre: Sellita SW266-1
Functions: Regulator: hours at 12 o’clock, central minutes, seconds at 6 o’clock
Winding: Automatic
Power reserve: Around 38 hours
Images courtesy of Louis Erard.