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.
Alexander Shorokhoff’s “Levels” is made in Germany by a Russian craftsman, using Swiss mechanical movements.
The “Levels” watch achieves its 3D dual time zone displays with the use of two separate self-winding ETA 2671 movements (here modified with hand engraving and other refinements by Shorokhoff and re-dubbed Caliber 2671.AS), 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 (the former for each subdial’s minute track, the latter identifying the timepiece with the “Alexander Shorokhoff” signature and the notation “Limited Edition – Made in Germany”) that are applied on the different levels. Two movements power two separate time displays on...