70- Vostok Precision Class

This watch was produced by the Chistopol Watch Factory in the 1960ies. It mounts a 22J movement with central seconds and a larger balance designad for increase accuracy.
Chistopol mounted this caliber in watches branded Vostok, Wostok (for export in germany) and volna. The legend "precision class" on the dial (shown in russian in this watch) was included only on watches that passed a set of more stringent tests during assembly.
See also numbers 32 , 24 and 13

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК

Some pictures:



Backcase:



Movement views:





A detailed picture of the balance with micro-regulator:

62- Vostok Amphibia Light Blue Markers

This watch was produced by the Tschistopolsky (Chistopol) Watch Factory in the 1980ies. It's a diver's watch with an octogonal case all in stainless steel. The watch is water resistant for up to 200m.
It mounts a 17 jewels movement, caliber 2414A, hand wind with no date.
The movement is protected against magnetic fields by a sweet iron capsule (see pictures bellow).

Other translitarations: Wostok, Vostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК

Some pictures:









Side views:





Backcase:



The sweet iron capsule that protects the movement from magnetism.



Movement picture:

59- Wostok Dress Watch Rocket Logo

This watch was probably produced in the 1960ies by the Chistopol watch factory. It mounts an 18 jewels movement with central seconds hand and no date, caliber 2209 .
The watch was produced for export hence branding and the English inscription on the movement. The dial branded Wostok shows a rocket flying over, an homage to the soviet space program (see also watch #57).

Other translitarations: Vostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК





The dial in detail:



Side view:



Movement picture:



Caseback with service inscription:

56- Vostok Amphibian White Dial

This watch was produced by the Tschistopolsky (Chistopol) Watch Factory in the 1980ies. It's a diver's watch with an octogonal case all in stainless steel. The watch is water resistant for up to 200m.
It mounts a 17 jewels movement, caliber 2414A, hand wind with no date.
The movement is protected against magnetic fields by a sweet iron capsule (see pictures bellow).

Other translitarations: Wostok, Vostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК

Some pictures:





Side Views:





Backcase:



The movement is protected against magnetic fields by a sweet iron capsule:



Movement views:

41- Wostok Amphibia "Padellone"

A Vostok Amphibia for export to the German market. The translitation
of the name written in Cyrillic "boctok" gives "Wostok" in German.
Produced by the Chistopol Watch Factory.

Other translitarations: Vostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК







A picture on my pulse: A little house in Scala Santa St. Trieste (Italy)

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).

39- Vostok Black Scuba Diver

Vostok scuba with an unusual black bezel. It has an octagonal amphibia case, all in stainless steel. I did not open the watch but I guess there is a 2409 manual winding, 17 jewels movement fitted inside this amphibia case.

Other translitarations: Wostok
Original name in Cyrillic: ВОСТОК





The scuba dude:



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: