When Elon Musk is looking for an appropriate watch on one of his future trips, he might be checking Konstantin Chaykin's latest. The Mars Conqueror Mk 3 is the latest brainchild of the most creative of all watchmakers. The relevancy of knowing Martian time should not be underestimated. Ever since I owned a IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar, provided with a small tube with additional year-displays for the 22nd and 23rd century ("Don't forget to make a service appointment with your AD in December 2199") I see the demonstration of relativity of time as one of the big treats of horology.
Konstantin Chaykin understands this as no other. Whether it's the Cinema Watch, demonstrating a small movie of a galloping horse, the one-handed Genius Temporis or the best-selling Joker, his watches show that telling time is just a by-product of his ingenuity and creativity.
The Mars Conqueror Mk 3 Fighter does what you'd expect. It tells Earth time and Martian time, which makes perfect sense because according to Chaykin "The conquest of Mars and its terraforming is a necessary step in the development of mankind, as farf as can be seen at the moment". The future Mars settler is provided with a titanium cased, trapezoidal, triangle design watch, with two vertical crowns integrated in the low corners of the case. 55x48mm and 15mm height makes a chunk of watch. The dark grey dial with big roman numerals and UTC and MTC displayed at 12 and 6, reminds of a traditional pilots watch, however lost in a extraterrestrial case.
Elon, are you listening? Taking the Mars Conqueror on your maiden trip is a no-brainer. Somehow I hope that at least a few of the remaining 7 pieces will stay on mother earth, so I will be able to pick one up when budget allows. Speaking of which: €19,710 will secure you this masterpiece of time relativity..
