Photographs, musings and reviews of a small collection of Russian Watches including Vostok, Raketa and Poljot
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 …
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 …
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 little beauty, actually not so little, with a diameter of 40mm excluding the crown, was one of my first Russian watches. This model is variously known as the Raketa Azimuth, sometimes the Raketa Wind Rose and I have also seen it called the Polaris, …