Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
This is a post more about the watch strap than the watch. The watch is one of my favourites, a Vostok Amphibia Classic 090 with a matt body and a nice matt, satin bezel (dial reference 090913). The strap is from GasGasBones.com. I had been …
The Vostok Komandirksie K-28 first appeared in the Summer of 2019. It sits in the Vostok classic Komandirskie range alongside other watches such as the K-35, K-39 etc. The Komandirskie K-28 was released in four different configurations: 280684 – Navy blue dial, white marking with …
I don’t often buy watches from Ebay unless it is from a seller that I know with a good reputation. However, I broke my own rules a few weeks ago and picked up a CCCP Special Edition by Poljot International from a seller here in …
The Vostok Amphibia Classic 150 range of watches first appeared in 2017. It was a brand new case type for Vostok. The first of the Vostok 150 releases, however, was the special edition Vostok Amphibia 150520S (which I think I acquired in late 2015) a …
When is an Komandirskie not a Komandirskie? When it is the Vostok Komandirskie Classic 65! The Vostok Komandirskie Classic 65 range was first released in early 2018. On examination it appears to be a Komandirskie in an a Vostok Amphibia 670 case – or in …
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, …
In Spring 2018 Meranom released three new Vostok “Antimagnetic” watch models for sale, all in the 090 tonneau style case. I don’t believe there were that many original Vostok Antimagnetic models and I think they were mostly made in the 1980s and 1990s and produced …
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 Vostok Amphibia SE 020B33 was released in Spring 2018. There were three variants – the SE 020B33 (the watch described here), the SE 020B34 with a white dial and the with a black dial. All are fitted with Vostok’s 2416B, 31 jewel automatic movement. …
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 …