From Russia With “Levels”: Alexander Shorokhoff's Latest Artistically Inspired Dual-Time Watch

WATCH TO WATCH Moscow-born independent watchmaker Alexander Shorokhoff founded his eponymous watch brand in Bavaria in 2003, and since then has found a niche with collectors with his distinctively colorful, artistically avant-garde timepieces, many inspired by Russian abstractionist painters Shorokhoff's newest eye-popping timepiece is a dual-time-zone model called "Levels" - named for its multi-level dial and constructed to display home time and local time on different planes.

The "Levels" watch achieves its 3D dual time zone displays with the use of two separate self-winding ETA 2671 movements, for each time zone The blue wave-patterned dial hosts two guillochéd subdials - one for home time on the right, on the higher level; the other for local time on the right, on the lower level - each positioned near a crown that the wearer can use to set their time displays These are bordered by circular and semicircular rose-gold appliques that are applied on the different levels.

The distinctively formed, decorative hands on each subdial are made of brass, and Shorokhoff has applied to each handset a different colored luminous treatment: orange on the local time subdial, green on the home time subdial A slightly off-center multicolored stripe bisects the dial while calling to mind other Shorokhoff artistic pieces, and on the left side a small rose-gold-plated bridge is vertically fixed with gold-plated screws over the lower subdial, culminating in a magnifying lens over the local time date display. . Source