Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
I have been struggling to keep up with blog posts recently having been kept pretty busy with work. There have been all sorts of new Vostoks, 170 releases, special edition 710s from Meranom and I also found out that Soviet Market have started releasing Special …
A little while ago I noticed a couple of new Vostok Amphibia special edition watches pop up for sale on Soviet Market. There are two models both commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of Vostok 1 12th April 1961, the first flight of the …
SE 710B46S (Green) and SE 710B45S (Blue) The Vostok Amphibia SE Icebreaker is a small range of special edition watches that was released by Meranom in the autumn of 2020. There were four different watches available with three different coloured dials: orange (710B44S), green (710B46S) …
In my previous blog post I reviewed the Vostok Amphibia Classic 170549 that forms part of a core range (so far) of six Amphibia 170 models which were first released towards the end of 2019. This watch, model 170549, is perhaps the smartest and dressiest …
It is funny how one’s tastes change. When I first started buying Vostok Amphibia watches it the 420 case shape (I was inspired originally by Bill Murray’s character in The Life Aquatic). I soon decided that these looked a little bit small on my 7 …
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 …
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 Amphibia 090 tonneau style case is probably my favourite of the classic Amphibia case styles, although the Amphibia 150 and 710 “ministry” cases are not far behind. I like the look and size of all of these on my 7 1/2 inch wrist. …
Earlier in the year I picked up a couple of the 2018 releases of the Vostok Amphibia 960 from Meranom. The 960 has become known as the “Vostok Neptune” after the Roman god of the sea whose likeness appears in the Neptune logo and branding. …
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 …