Guide to Vostok Watches

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Published on Nov 8, 2016

These are one of the funnest legal, inexpensive things you can buy as a grown-up. I recommend you save up $600 and buy 10 of them; play around with them. Mix and Match dials, hands, bands/straps, decorate and modify them. They will enhance your life. Vintage mid-century, pre-USSR fall Soviet engineering. наслаждайтесь!
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Komandirskie watches
Designed as infantry watches for the Soviet army, used by soldiers’ standard issue military watch. Made in the 2nd Moscow Watch Factory, which moved to Chistopol in 1942 as Germans invaded Moscow - renamed Vostok in honor of Space Program by the same name.

39mm case diameter
44mm lug-to-lug length
18mm lug width
17 jewel, 19800BPH 2414A/B movement, hand-wound, 38hour power reserve. 30M (3ATM) WR.
Date with 8-12 rapid-set, screw-down crown with stem-bend resistant wobble.
Chrome over brass bezel AND case.
Caseback with vodonyepronitzayemihye: water proof, Rossiya: Russia made.

These were used on space missions just as the Omega man-on-the-moon speedmasters were, due to hand-winding function - this is necessary for 0-gravity environments.
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Vostok Amphibia
Case: 40mm (for standard case, to 41mm for Tonneau).
Width including crown: 43.5mm
Lug to lug: 46.5mm
Lug spacing 18mm (for 420, 120, 060), 22mm (for 090, 100, 110, 710)
Height: 15mm with crystal, 12mm case height
Weight 60g
Movement: 2416B, 31 synth ruby jewels, automatic with hand-windable. Not less than 31 hours reserve.
200M WR, anti-shock balance and crown, screw-down crown and case back. Rotating bezel. 10 year service intervals recommended. All watches tested before shipping.
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Both Komandirske and Amphibias meant to last at most 10 years, then disposed of. But can be disassembled, cleaned, oiled, re-assembled for indefinite life as well.
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ScubaDude dials:
059: white SD top right floater on blue
634: white SD top right floater on black
386: black mid left floater on teal
380: orange mid left floater on black
656: light blue top swimmer on blue
657: orange top swimmer on black
658: black top swimmer on beige
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Zissou dials: grey on black (Murray): 526, khaki on blue: 374
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Case shapes:
710: the vintage cushion case, also called the Ministry case (orig features gov ministry graphics): 22mm lug
100: the rounded octogon block case: 22mm lug width
090: the Tonneau barrel case: 22mm lug width
110: the batman case: 22mm lug width
060: the UFO case: 18mm lug width
120: the crown-guard round case: 18mm lug width
420: the standard round case: 18mm lug width
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Standard Bezels:
Compass bezel 8 dot (usually with the 060 round tapered lug cover case)
4loaf15bezel, found in octogonal case
4loafEKGbezel, found in squared case
sunburstNumbered bezel found in Tonneau case
Sunburst15bezel usually paired with Tonneau case
12dotRB bezel, found in standard round case
CountdownRB bezel, found usually paired with Ministry case.
15chevronbracketbezel, found in crown-guard round case
Ratchet10bezel, found usually paired with batman case.
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WHERE TO BUY
-Ru.Store on Amazon.com: $6 shipping, $83 shipped, $84 for VA on NATO.
-Russiangoods2013 on amazon.com: $76 for VA.
-Tectronics: based out of FL, US seller: $80 incl shipping on VAs.
-MoscowTimeSeller: rapid shipping, reliable. 2x experience: $15 shipping, $26-28 VKs (total $41-47 for VKs, $69-75 for VAs).
-Blandebar: rapid shipping, one of cheapest prices including shipping, 2x experience: $12 shipping, $52 for VAs, $65-74 w/leather NATOs. $77-86 total for VAs.
-Shmek: slow shipping. $6 shipping, $66 for VAs w/NATO.
-Koche-victo: slow shipping: $14 shipping, $25-53 for VKs, $46-53 for VAs, “offers” only $1 off. Total $39-67 VKs, $60-67 VAs.
-Russian.store: good prices including shipping, wide variety, offers (but only accepts $1 off). $7.50 shipping. $28 for VKs. $52-$83 for VAs (Hi prices on shark mesh br).
-Zenitar: one of highest rated seller. $75-80 total for VAs ($15 shipping). $36-39 total for VKs.
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Bezels:
-arkustime: $10 shipping, $29-$35.
-Boris_gvb in Kiev $40.
-Saltua2014 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine $34.
-Dr.seikostain in Lodz, Poland $31.
-bandukh in NewOrleans $25.
-Am-diver in Dresden $50.

 
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Visually eye catching! :wink:Thanks Mike.:hat:
 
Vostok Komandirskie (2416b) - Watchmaker Review

Richard Perrett Watchmaker
Published on Mar 17, 2019

A full and in depth review of The Vostok Komandirskie by UK Watchmaker Richard Perrett. In this video I take the watch straight out of the mail and do a pretty thorough examination of this offering by Vostok.

 
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