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Vince’s Konstantin Chaykin is no joking matter  Vince’s Konstantin Chaykin is no joking matter 

Vince’s Konstantin Chaykin is no joking matter 

Felix Scholz

Next up in our rolling cavalcade of ‘Every Watch Tells a Story’ stories is Vince. Now, this one is a bit of a funny one, and not just because the watch in question is the critically acclaimed Joker from Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin. If you’re not familiar with the Joker, it’s a very clever piece of watchmaking, that looks like, well, a Joker. Look closer and you’ll notice that those crazy eyes show hours and minutes, and the lolling red tongue is actually a moonphase. It’s bright, cheery and pretty out of the box for a generally conservative industry. And these are all reasons why Vince fell for the watch, hard. The only problem? It was limited to 99 pieces and they were all gone. 

He actually made a secret edition with a casino in Russia called Tigre de Cristal

So Vince put some calls in to try to track one down. Within minutes he had a call back … but there was something odd about this Joker …