St. Petersburg Easter Egg Tourbillon Clock

Anton Suhanov was far removed from the idea of making the St. Petersburg Easter Egg Tourbillon clock in the traditional way. Carl Fabergé’s Easter egg objects are generally an example of luxury jewelry. He did not try to be restrained in his design, which is quite appropriate for the wealth of the customer and the taste of the time. On the contrary, Suhanov strove for minimalism in his design and wanted to give the genre of Easter egg clock a different, modern, relevant vision – even breathe new life into it.

Let’s start with the fact that the St. Petersburg Easter Egg Tourbillon clock looks like the legendary egg of Columbus, which mysteriously remains in a perfectly vertical position as there are no supporting parts. The Suhanov version of the Easter egg object is the most laconic image of a pure egg shape, which combines three main parts: a base made of mirror-polished stainless steel, the main part (“shell”) made of a hand-guilloched silver case decorated with translucent hot enamel, and finally a domed sapphire crystal placed above the tourbillon and time displays.

The only detail that stands out a little from the immaculately smooth egg-shaped figure is the bezel with the notches and markings of the 24-hour time scale; this scale also allows the seconds to be measured by the tourbillon, which makes one revolution in exactly 24 seconds. The time can be set by turning this bezel – in all 24 time zones simultaneously. The sector with the local time of Moscow (and St. Petersburg) is highlighted by a radial brushing that contrasts with the surface of the other 23 sectors of the city disk.