Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
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) …
The Buyalov RR02 Akula was the third watch to be released by Buyalov Watches and was released in Summer 2020. As any Vostok watch fan probably already knows, the man behind Buyalov Watches is Dmitry Buyalov. Buyalov has been the designer at Vostok Watches since …
The Vostok Komandirskie K39 is a pretty big watch, one of the biggest of all the in the Komandirskie range of watches. There are about half a dozen watches in the K39 range and this watch, the dual time 390781, is the one that I …
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 …
The Vostok Komandirskie 030935 24 Hour Watch was released in the winter of 2020. It is one of three Vostok 24 hour watches that were released at the same time. This model reviewed here, the 030936 has a blue dial and black / blue bezel. …
I have been trying hard to reign in my watch buying recently but new models keep appearing! This is the new Vostok Komandirskie 03, the 030787, which was released, alongside model 030786, in autumn 2019. Both watches are the same the only difference is that …
A little update and a quick post from my Instagram. I picked this Vostok Amphibia “Ministry” up from Ebay recently (something I don’t normally do). I was intrigued by the little fish logo and 200m around the edge of the dial between the 10 and …
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 …