40- Vostok Green Scuba

Produced by the Chistopol Watch Factory in the mid nineties since the dial still reads made in the USSR but the movement is marked RU (made in Russia).
The case in this watch is similar to #23 a contemporary watch that also has this ambiguity regarding its origins (russia, urss). This characteristic is not unusual in pieces of this time period.
It has a 21 jewels 2416 automatic movement with date.
The back is inscribed with a phrase pronounced by Peter the Great in 1716: "There is a great need of engineers"

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК



The inscribed back:



Some pictures on my wrist:

With a friendly cat at Miramare's park on Trieste (Italy).

37- Chaika Stadium

Big watch with a retro futuristic seventies look. Its name is obviously originated by the case shape.
The watch was produced in the early eighties. Chaika branded watches were produced by the Uglich watch factory which also produced many woman's models. This one has a 2627H, 23 jewels, automatic movement with day-date complications and quick date set button located at seven.
Watches with stadium cases were also produced under the Poljot brand by the 1st Moscow Watch Factory.

Some pictures:





Side views:





Wrist shots:

35- Vostok Europe K3 Submarine

Vostok Europe watches are assembled in Lithuania with decorated vostok movements.
My model has a day/night indicator. The little window above six goes from red to black starting about 6 pm.







Some pictures on my wrist:

33- Vostok Neptune

This is a modern vostok amphibia. It is one of the nicest modern vostoks. Its only weak point is the bracelet. It came with an integrated bracelet that is uncomfortable and of bad quality. I decided to replace it by an invicta bracelet I had. Pictures of this process can be found bellow.
Here is a picture of the watch with the original bracelet:

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК





Dial detail:



Changing the bracelet.

I decided to replace the original bracelet with an Invicta bracelet I have. Invicta bracelets are made of surgical grade stainless steel and the quality is superb. Also, the middle link on these bracelets have the exact same measure of the end link that connect the old bracelet with the watch case.

Mi first intention was to remove the middle link on the invicta and somehow join the end link of the watch to the bracelet. This is not possible, the middle link cannot be retired without braking the bracelet.

Here is the test I made with one spare link:



A better idea was to directly cut the protruding part on the center end link and use what is left as support to fix the invicta bracelet with the end link attached to the watch.
I cut it as shown in this picture:




This option is also better because the profile of the end link in the Neptune is thin so when it goes around the remaining of the middle link of Invicta's bracelet (which is thicker) the watch sits naturally and the bracelet does not show any discontinuity.
This is a side view of the watch to illustrate this point:



This is a back view that show how I folded the original end link around the cut middle link on the Invicta bracelet:



Finally, some picture of the watch on my wrist:

27- Slava Sporty

Chromed case with a 2427, 27 jewels, automatic movement. The movement has a day-date complication with quick date set.
As all Slava branded watches it was produced by the 2nd Moscow Watch Factory.

Other transliterations: Slawa
Original name in Cyrillic: Слава





Movement shot (seller's picture):



Some pictures on my pulse.

On a bridge in Ljubljana (Slovenia):

11- 12- Vostok White Radio Room

This was a very cool initiative from watchuseek and orologiando forums. The project consisted in the design of a white dial version of the famous vostok radio room. The idea of the white dial is borrowed from a submarine clock and deck clocks where the markets are used to remember radio operators when to liten to the SOS frequencies in the board radios.
The watch was produced in two versions, one with a date window and the other one without it, totaling about 200 watches. I am lucky enough to have two of them (both of them without the date window).

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК



Back view with the personal engraving with Cyrillic characters:



Close up side view:



On my pulse:



Still on the original bracelet:



This was the original announcement for the watch:



This is the clock the watch design is based on:

7- Vostok Komandirskie Paratrooper

A modern komandirskie with a paratrooper on the dial. The case and crown is smaller than older komandirskie and quality specially regarding the thickness of the chrome layer is quite worse.

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК



On my pulse: