Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
So what is a Franken watch? As you might suspect the name derives from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which a science student, Viktor Frankenstein, creates a sentient humanoid being from all sorts of bits and pieces. So put simply a Franken watch is a watch …
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 …