Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
I have been struggling to keep up with blog posts recently having been kept pretty busy with work. There have been all sorts of new Vostoks, 170 releases, special edition 710s from Meranom and I also found out that Soviet Market have started releasing Special …
A little while ago I noticed a couple of new Vostok Amphibia special edition watches pop up for sale on Soviet Market. There are two models both commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of Vostok 1 12th April 1961, the first flight of the …
SE 710B46S (Green) and SE 710B45S (Blue) The Vostok Amphibia SE Icebreaker is a small range of special edition watches that was released by Meranom in the autumn of 2020. There were four different watches available with three different coloured dials: orange (710B44S), green (710B46S) …
The Buyalov RR02 Akula was the third watch to be released by Buyalov Watches and was released in Summer 2020. As any Vostok watch fan probably already knows, the man behind Buyalov Watches is Dmitry Buyalov. Buyalov has been the designer at Vostok Watches since …
The Vostok Komandirskie K39 is a pretty big watch, one of the biggest of all the in the Komandirskie range of watches. There are about half a dozen watches in the K39 range and this watch, the dual time 390781, is the one that I …
In my previous blog post I reviewed the Vostok Amphibia Classic 170549 that forms part of a core range (so far) of six Amphibia 170 models which were first released towards the end of 2019. This watch, model 170549, is perhaps the smartest and dressiest …
It is funny how one’s tastes change. When I first started buying Vostok Amphibia watches it the 420 case shape (I was inspired originally by Bill Murray’s character in The Life Aquatic). I soon decided that these looked a little bit small on my 7 …
The Vostok Komandirskie 030935 24 Hour Watch was released in the winter of 2020. It is one of three Vostok 24 hour watches that were released at the same time. This model reviewed here, the 030936 has a blue dial and black / blue bezel. …
I have been trying hard to reign in my watch buying recently but new models keep appearing! This is the new Vostok Komandirskie 03, the 030787, which was released, alongside model 030786, in autumn 2019. Both watches are the same the only difference is that …
A little update and a quick post from my Instagram. I picked this Vostok Amphibia “Ministry” up from Ebay recently (something I don’t normally do). I was intrigued by the little fish logo and 200m around the edge of the dial between the 10 and …