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Sturmanskie is known for its watches that harken back to the Cold War era. A good example is the Heritage Polar Automatic watch: a true 24-hour timepiece that completes just one full revolution each day Read More
The watch is pretty confusing: it has "автомат" (automatic) written on the dial, the specs say it's automatic yet the description says it's manual wound. What's up massdrop?
R2AWatchesNot surprised. He runs a small company--not as popular as he thinks. Their best known model features the "Growing Nose" complication; every six seconds, it gets longer:
I'd have to see the internals on this one to determine if they actually took the movement apart and cleaned it up versus just slapping Vostok's 24h movement in a decently-finished case with different dial.
I know for a fact that Vostok-Europe does this. They take Vostok movements and clean & polish them up so they run really well and put them in nice modern cases. I have one of their Submarine models and it's pretty good.
If they don't do any work on the standard Vostok 24h movement then I'd skip this one if I were you and just get a US ~$100 24h Amphibia model direct from Vostko itself.
Its not even a 24hour watch, otherwise 15:00 would be at 3pm, 18:00 would be at 6pm, 21:00 at 9pm etc, so I dont know what those number shall indicate, maybe is ticking different in Russia.
Kind of a whacky drop. You can buy an actual Raketa or other vintage cold war era 24 hour watch on Ebay for a quarter of this. If I was going to buy a new watch why would I want one that just kind of looks like a vintage model, but not a specific one?
you may be right about build quality. I own several vintage Soviet microphones (made in Tula!) and have owned a couple Soviet watches. There is a certain lack of refinement to some of the construction on those.
This may be a more precise instrument, but there is an offbeat charm to the actual Soviet era watches. I really like the more artsy looking ones with angular/geometric motifs. This looks a lot more Western European in the fonts, colors and styling.