Konstantin Chaykin Dracula

The Dracula Wristmon has a vampire’s face, complete with a fanged grin and a tuxedo-inspired strap. If Count Dracula wore a watch, he’d surely sport Chaykin’s Dracula Wristmon. This eerie-yet-charming timepiece takes the Joker’s goofy grin and gives it a vampiric twist. The dial indeed looks like a vampire’s face: two round eyes (for hours and minutes) stare out with a hypnotic gaze, and below them lies an exaggerated pale grin complete with pointy fangs. Chaykin actually engineered a special complication for this model – the “Dracula time” display – in which the fangs extend and retract to indicate the night hours.

              As midnight approaches, two sharp fangs gradually appear in the mouth; they reach full length around 1:00 AM, then slowly recede by about 3:40 AM, disappearing completely by dawn. It’s a brilliant theatrical touch: the watch literally “grows” fangs at night! The rest of the dial reinforces the vampire theme too. There’s a little red triangular nose and a black mustache-like detail above the grin, evoking classic Dracula imagery. At 6 o’clock, the moonphase disk doubles as Dracula’s tongue – blood-red, of course – lolling out in a ghoulish chuckle. The 42 mm case is made of black PVD-coated stainless steel, giving it a sleek, midnight-black finish that suits the theme (and helps prevent unwanted reflections, since vampires prefer the shadows). Even the strap is tongue-in-cheek: Chaykin offered a special black leather strap styled like Dracula’s tuxedo, complete with a tiny white bow tie and blood-red “lapel” accents near the lugs. Produced in a limited run of 13 pieces – a fittingly spooky number – the Dracula watch is both an impressive feat of engineering and a fun conversation piece. It’s a reminder that even high-end watches can have a little bite (pun intended) and a lot of personality.