Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
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 …
I don’t own many Vostok Komandirksie watches, I am much more of an Vostok Amphibia kind of guy. However, I couldn’t resist purchasing a Vostok Komandirskie when I recently picked up the new Vostok Amphibia SE150520S. The Vostok Komandirskie K-35 range is a relatively new …
Its been a while since my last blog post, in fact I have just realised that I haven’t posted since 2015! This has been due to a combination of the fact that I haven’t really had much to blog about recently with very little in …
The Vostok Komandirskie 1965 watch, released in the autumn of 2015, is a special release to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chistopol Watch Factory Vostok becoming the official supplier to the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet union and the Red Army. The first …
I had a Vostok Amphibia 110 shaped hole in my collection of Russian watches and decided to fill it with a Vostok Amphibia 110 Radio Room, model 110650. This watch came from www.komandirskie.com. The Vostok 110 case shape is large and angular with much more …
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 …
This Vostok Komandirskie Ukraine is a watch that sparked some debate on Facebook, some political which I am not interested in, but mostly about identifying the model. Whilst I was preparing to write this blog post and I was researching the watch, I couldn’t find …
My first Slava! I have had my eye on the Slava 2428 Watermelon for a little while. It was for sale on Ebay in the UK, and I finally got round to buying it. Slava, which translates as “Glory”, is a civilian watch brand, the second …
I thought I would share my collection of Vostok Amphibia watches with the 710 “Ministry” case. This is probably my favourite Vostok Amphibia watch case. To me, it is very easy on the eye, the best looking of the Vostok Amphibias and it is just …
This is rapidly becoming one of my favourite watches. This particular Vostok Komandirskie K-34 Automatic, model 2426/350006, is a lot of watch for the money, if you can find one in stock somewhere. Mine came from www.komandirskie.com, at a very good price. Firstly, let me say, …