Anton Suhanov is an independent watchmaker based in St. Petersburg, known for technically ambitious watches and clocks that bring movement architecture and display logic to the foreground. His work is unconventional, but never arbitrary: each timepiece begins with a mechanical idea and develops into a highly personal interpretation of how time can be shown.

Suhanov came to watchmaking through engineering. After training in computer-aided design systems for mechanical engineering, he spent more than a decade as chief technical designer at Konstantin Chaykin’s manufacture. That background remains visible in his own work, from multi-axis tourbillons and retrograde displays to peripheral winding systems and visible regulating organs.

His first major independent project, the Black Clock, brought him international attention in 2016. Built around a three-axis tourbillon, it won the Young Talent Competition organised by the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants with the support of François-Paul Journe. Suhanov later developed this direction further with table clocks such as Pharos, Lotus, and the St. Petersburg Easter Egg Tourbillon Clock, combining complex mechanics with world time displays, animation, enamel, guilloché, and his distinctive flaming balance concept.

His wristwatches translate the same engineering-led approach into a more compact format. The Racer, Racer Retro, Chronotope, and Flamingo each explore different ways of making mechanical function visible, whether through retrograde indications, jumping displays, dial-side movement architecture, or the use of ruby jewels as both functional components and design elements.

Anton Suhanov’s watches are technically serious, visually distinctive, and closely tied to the direct involvement of their maker. For collectors, they offer an uncommon view of independent watchmaking: mechanical ideas made visible, developed with precision, and expressed with a strongly personal signature.