The Konstantin Chaykin Joker Dracula Watch: Its Fangs Come Out Only At Night

At first with an haute horlogerie version made in conjunction with independent watchmaker Svend Andersen called the Joker Automaton and later by giving the Joker new personalities The latest in this line arrives just in time for Halloween: a horological Dracula! Housed in a 42 x 14.2 mm blackened stainless steel case and featuring the grinning dial-face we have come to love in contrasting black, white, and red colors, the Joker featuring a googly-eyed time display and a clever moon phase mouth has unmistakably become a Transylvanian blood sucker just in time to celebrate 2018's Halloween Even more cleverly, an added technical detail truly transforms it: just after 10:00 pm, the permanently grimacing, moon-enhanced Joker smile becomes something more sinister as Dracula's vampire fangs appear, disappearing again at the first sign of the approaching sunrise at 6:00 in the morning.

Halloween may be over on November 1, but this Dracula will continue to show its vampire side every night in anticipation of the next All Hallows' Eve when the spirits rise anew Chaykin stresses that this Dracula is not simply a new design of his Joker watch line: he developed a new movement module to accommodate the complicated appearance and disappearance of the fangs, which is in reality a clever day/night indication Automatic Caliber К18-7 Dracula is based on the Swiss Caliber ETA 2824-2, a perfect workhorse movement for Chaykin's Joker watches.

The new module accommodating the fang function adds 16 new parts and makes the dial of new Dracula twice as complex as that of the Joker. . Source