Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
This is a Vostok Amphibia 710 Ministry Case fitted with a compass style stripped brass bezel and a heavy duty Nato watch strap.