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The Kashalot, for which this watch is named, was a single-hull submarine that entered service toward the end of the Soviet era in 1988. Absent of lugs, this watch is built from a single hull as well—and it’s not too shabby in the water, either Read More
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I’m still wondering why would anyone want to BUY anything labeled CCCP? I guess if you went to a costume party with your friend dressed as Stasi officer.. then okay (have fun by the way)! But paying hundred bucks for a joke seems like a big luxury to me.
What part of it is really explicitly referencing the soviet union? The logo is pretty small and the rather silly red caseback is never going to be visible to people. I mean it doesn't have a huge self portrait of stalin or hammer/sickle on the dial. To me, it looks very much like something vostok, raketa or pobeda would have made back in the day. A bit rough, very industrial/brutalist, and made from old melted down borscht cans and t34 tanks.
I definitely see what you mean about having a lot more disgust for the Soviet Union having had to live under them. In a similar vein, it's how making fun of Americans and our "love of guns." when to a majority of us who have to live through dozens of school shootings a year in our country and hundreds of dead kids, it's a hell of a lot less funny and a lot more sad.
Or me calling my dispatch and telling them that I'm out of service because my ambulance is "deader than Lincoln". Which is funny to me, but probably a lot less so to the people who lived it.
"too soon" I guess is the context. I was one year old when the berlin wall fell, so the vast, vast majority of the cold war and its truly awful details are either foreign or completely unknown to me. Just like so many American kids today will (hopefully) never know how it felt to live in a country where just being born could prevent you from ever having health insurance and keep you and your parents bankrupt for your entire life as a result.
Either way, I still like the look of the soviet era design language. I have a couple vintage soviet naval officer watches, a raketa and a pobeda, and I love them. And while I also really love the look of vintage WWII german watches too, I could definitely see a huge problem with a "homage" that had a big fat swastika on it, or a CCCP with a huge hammer and sickle.
amateriat
I think the name is just a coincidence:
"The Kashalot, for which this watch is named, was a single-hull submarine that entered service toward the end of the Soviet era in 1988."I don't think the Ruskies expected someone to name a damn watch after their sub--especially this one ;- )
Watchyoutalkingabout
Nov 12, 2020
Clearly I purchased the wrong timepiece. I must now immediately put my Submariner up for sale so that I may buy this exquisitely sized and timelessly elegant piece of mechanical art correctly labeled as a Submarine.
Just kidding, of course. The only thing this watch has in common with an actual submarine is that they should both be found at the bottom of the ocean. Stop buying disposable junk. You’re welcome.
I bought the blue model last time. It looks nice. It fits well. It is legible. It does not keep time worth a damn. Like 12 to 15 minutes PER DAY off. If accurate time is a consideration this watch should not be.
Not Kashalot, but Cashaloss!!!!! Almost as bad as the Heritor Aura ,which you will have a lot of trouble telling the time, but seriously some of these watches are really just oversized pieces from the early 2000s!! For"Babyboomer" tryhards.