Description
Soviet mechanical Wostok (Vostok) watch – 22 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Manufactured on Chistopolsky Watch Factory “VOSTOK”, USSR.
The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the creation of the well known Komandirskie (“Commander’s”) watch.
Precision, 22 jewels. This is one of the most accurate mechanisms ever created in the USSR. Made in the third quarter of 1959. This caliber (2809), analogous to the legendary Swiss movement – ZENITH 135.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original soviet “Vostok” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
CASE SIZE 42×36.5mm(with crown)
THICKNESS 11mm
LUG WIDTH 17mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2809
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
Watch went through a complete service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.
Comes complete with 16mm genuine leather NATO COMMANDER handmade strap!
Modes Of Payment:
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Fast international shipping: ships from Ukraine with tracking number usually within the same business day!
About the watch factory
Watch Factory “VOSTOK” – began as the “2nd State Watch Factory” was evacuated during World War 2 to Chistopol in 1941.
In 1943 began producing Kirovskie watch – first soviet man’s wrist watch earlier made on 1st Moscow Watch Factory. From 1949 famous “Podeba” watches were made here.
From 1962 “Commander’s” watch Vostok were made on the factory.
Since 1969 factory was official supplier of Ministry of Defence, all watches produced were branded as “Vostok”
Other brands produced: Albatros, Amphibia, Buran, Chaika, General’s, Kama, Kolos, Comandirskie, Mir, Pobeda, Saturn, Sekonda, Sputnik, Svet, Uran, Vostok