Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
The Vostok Retro 540HDR wa a 2017 special edition sold by Meranom. As I understand it there was an original run of 75 commissioned as a special order by the Spanish speaking watch forum Hablemos de Relojes (or HDR) – hence the name 540HDR. It …
The Vostok Amphibia Operation Desert Shield has an interesting story behind it. There also seem to be a lot of variations of this watch, Komandirskies, Generalskies and Amphibias, some are real and some are frankens. I think mine is the real deal, an Amphibia 420 …
I am much more of a Vostok Amphibia kind of guy but I do have a few Vostok Komandirskie watches in my collection. I don’t know why, I just find the Amphibias more pleaseing to my eye I guess. This one of my Komandirskie watches, …
The Vostok Amphibia SE 0902685 is a recent acquisition, a big tonneau-style watch with a bronze-y / orange dial, paddle hands and the Cosmonaut caseback.
This is a Vostok Amphibia 710 Ministry Case fitted with a compass style stripped brass bezel and a heavy duty Nato watch strap.