Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
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 …
The Vostok Amphibia SE 020B37 appeared on Meranom’s website in the summer of 2019. I decided to add this to the collection mainly because I hadn’t bought anything new for a while (I was getting withdrawal symptons!) and also because I realised that, apart from …
Dmitry Buyalov is a watch designer for the Russian watch brand Vostok. He is also the man behind the Meranom website which, not surprisingly, seems to have a direct link to the Vostok factory at Chistopolcity. With both the Meranom webshop and his design work, …
The Vostok Compressor 800b27 was released in the Spring of 2018. It features two crowns with a rotating inner bezel. What is a Compressor Watch? Most people assume a compressor watch is exactly what this Vostok Compressor 800b27 is: a dual crowned watch with a …
Completing my 2018 Vostok Amfibia purchases (so far!), alongside the Reef and the Red Sea, is the Amfibia Vostok Amphibia Scuba 2416/070799. The other two 2018 Amfibia releases that I have not bought are the new releases of the Amfibia Turbina and the Black Sea. …
The updated Amfibia Vostok Amphibia Reef was released in Autumn 2017 and completed a set of new releases which also included the new Amfibia Vostok Amphibia Red Sea which I reviewed a few months ago, Black Sea, Scuba and Turbina. Of the five watches I …
In Autumn 2017 some new Vostok Amfibia watches began to appear for sale on various websites. There are five new models of Vostok Amfibia – the Black Sea, Red Sea, Reef and Scuba. I think there are new Turbina models too but I am not …
I haven’t really done any modding recently, I don’t know why. I call this Vostok Amphibia 120512 mod, but really it is only a very light mod with a Dave Murphy bezel (coin edge, insert style, bezel V01050) and a new Dagaz insert added (called …