Vostok (Russian: Восток, meaning East*) Watch Makers, Inc. produces mainly rugged military and diver mechanical watches at its factory in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia. It also makes clocks and watch movements for other watch brands. The Vostok Company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan.[1] Only defence equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the Company did not begin using the "Vostok" brand name until the 1960s. *Presumable "Vostok" brand was named after the Vostok space programme, which gave the initial advancement of the USSR in the Space race (as some others soviet watch brands, named to space topics in 1960s - Poljot and Raketa). The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the creation of the well known Komandirskie ("Commander's") watch. The experience gained through development of the army watch led to the Amphibia, a stainless-steel watch able to withstand a 200 metre depth (20atm). By 1980, Vostok Watch Makers was producing 4.5 million timepieces per year. In 2006, Vostok Watch Makers began marketing another new line of watches branded "Amfibia." This brand, like most other Vostok products, features the familiar 31-jewel automatic (No. 2416B) movement. These watches feature "diver" styling with polyurethane or stainless steel bands. An updated version of the Komandirskie debuted in summer, 2007, and a special anniversary edition of the Amphibia (called the "1967") appeared in early 2008. Both of these models feature high-quality assembly, materials and packaging.
M**.
Great watch!
Buy one of these if you are looking for an old style mechanical windup watch at an affordable price. Do not buy this watch if you want a watch that is accurate within 1 second a day, leave that to the quartz watches. My watch runs about 20 seconds a day fast which is fine with me. I have been very happy with this watch, it replaces a Seiko automatic watch I had that broke a tooth inside the watch that caused it to run very fast. Unlike the others, I am keeping the metal watch band that came with it as it fits me just fine. The non-metallic watch bands I has used in the past always smelled after a month or so of use as they retained my sweat in the band, not an issue with a metal band. I find winding and adjusting the hands easy to use with the screw down crown. I have been to Russia, wished I knew about the Vostok watch then.
S**E
Very cool watch
Best new friend goes with me everywhere oh yeah and only a face a mother could love . but that's what makes it so cool
T**L
Five Stars
Best real divers watch you can buy under $100. Add a little Cold War to life.
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