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 …
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 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, …