One of my hottest watch related takes is that Konstantin Chaykin is among the most criminally underrated watchmakers of his generation. OK, this might be a lukewarm take, but hear me out. Chaykin is quite famous in the subculture of high end independent watchmaking, but his notoriety rides primarily on one watch, or, more precisely, a now longstanding series of watches that fit every possible definition of the word ?novelty.? The ?Wristmons? series of character watches started with the Joker and has expanded into a variety of whimsical characters since, spawning love-it or hate-it attitudes from the watch public. Where I think Chaykin is underrated is in his criminal reduction to being the ?Joker watch guy,? a classification that?s only possible if you don?t take the approximately 30 seconds required to navigate to his website and observe that the Wristmons series is only a small slice of the total output from a watchmaker who can only be described as one of the most purely creative at work today.  There are a lot of Konstantin Chaykin creations with complications that are more whimsical than practical (his ?Cinema? watch animates a small galloping horse on the dial at the push of a button to pay tribute to early pioneers of the moving image, for example). He?s also designed several clocks, including a ?Shabbat Clock,? a highly complicated calendar which is capable of automatically stopping the mechanical movement before sundown on Friday nights. But for me, as an unaba...