Are You Abstaining From Wearing Russian Watches?
It seems as of lately that I am not seeing as many Vostok, Boctok, Poljot, and Raketa watches. I am thinking about modifying a couple. I haven't seen many lately.
I'm thinking about modding a couple of these.
I am trying to see mods that fellow Crunchers have made. I know that I have seen them here before. Why am I not seeing them? If you have some Vostok/Boctok mods can you please show me some?
I haven't really seen many Poljot or Raketa watches either. Are you abstaining from wearing them because of the conflict going on? I don't like what is going on either. These watches are before the crook. I can understand if they are made during the crook. You know that he has his fingers in the til somehow and that money is supporting his cause. I wouldn't buy or wear one either. These are safe to wear. Please show me some mods. ☺
I have been collecting watches for a while now. I have so many watches that I wear a different one every day. Cheap to expensive, if I like how it looks I wear it.
I never wore em before. War or not I don't really give a shit about Russian watches 🤷🏻♂️
I have a vintage Raketa on the way because it’s technically a USSR brand.
Vostok is super cool but ya…I am refraining from buying Vostok because of what’s going on.
No shade on anyone who rocks them, they are super nice watches 😊🤝
I have a couple that I wear on occasion. I have no beef with the workers who work at the watch factories.
I do wear my Vostok in my usual rotation. Bought around May 2021:
Though I didn’t wear it for a couple or months after the “special military operation” started because I just didn’t feel like it. I later convinced myself that no matter the current events, an Amphibia bought pre-war is for me a tribute to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of its design and construction.
Still, I do tend to think twice about where and when do I wear my Amphibia these days: for example, I’m privileged to have Russian friends and I lived in Berlin in the 2010s. I still visit the city with regularity to visit my friends, and somehow it just doesn’t feel right to wear the Amphibia when hanging out with them since 2022.
Same as when I visit countries that used to belong to the Warsaw Pact. I prefer not risking to have an uncomfortable conversation with anybody while out and about or with anybody who’s had one drink too many at a pub. I just wear my Casio instead.
Haven't got one but wouldn't wear/buy one on principle.
I wore this for a time yesterday. I wear mine less, not out of any political conviction (mine are all Soviet era), but just that I wear others more.
Don't much care... Its a watch.
Just put this on.
Thinking my Flieger is next on the rotation
Yes, and I refrain from referring to or commenting on any. Right now the reality is ‼️‼️💣💥
In the end, you purchasing a USSR/Russian made watch won't change anything, if you like it, rock it. I personally don't wear Russian watches, but I wouldn't refrain from buying one currently, I've had my eye on a Vostock Amphibia for a while
They're innocent inanimate little objects
I owned three Vostok's but sold them because of the Ukraine invasion. I felt like I was being disrespectful.
I have two Vostoks I rarely wear but yes I wouldn’t purchase one ever again.
Had contemplated purchasing a Scuba Dude, but since the invasion it just wouldn’t feel right. Personal gut decision.
Not abstaining I just don't wanna wait for em!!
Nope, I love my two amphibias. People who do, well.....are the watch makers responsible for anything? widen your world view, support our fellow watch folk. Just saying.
Not modded by me, bought like this. Molnija movements inside new cases.
Hot off the printer from Fakeistan. Its great they get use out of those old Soviet Pocket watches, but they are about as "Soviet" as Hunt for Red October.
Had contemplated purchasing a Scuba Dude, but since the invasion it just wouldn’t feel right. Personal gut decision.
Look for a Soviet Era Scuba Dude, they do exist. When I'm more financially on my feet I want one. To get one that does not look like it was found in a shipwreck is $$$$$$
Had contemplated purchasing a Scuba Dude, but since the invasion it just wouldn’t feel right. Personal gut decision.
Look for a Soviet Era Scuba Dude, they do exist. When I'm more financially on my feet I want one. To get one that does not look like it was found in a shipwreck is $$$$$$
Here is a guilt free Russian watch I can wear!
I have a vintage Raketa on the way because it’s technically a USSR brand.
Vostok is super cool but ya…I am refraining from buying Vostok because of what’s going on.
No shade on anyone who rocks them, they are super nice watches 😊🤝
Pretty much my view on it. The Soviet Union and the Russian Federation are two distinct and different countries. Though the only Russian I've worn recently is my Chaika Stadium.
Not abstaining I just don't wanna wait for em!!
Before the war soviet.market could get a Vostok into my hands from Moscow to Minneapolis in about four days.
Here is a guilt free Russian watch I can wear!
Is that Zelenskyy?
Is that Zelenskyy?
Yep. From a watch guy I know in Ukraine. 🙂 I don't know the model, but its got to be the ugliest, most dirt cheap low demand Soviet watch ever made. There are millions of them. So they usually get slopped up with fake "patriotic" faces, and you can't miss that craptrastic Chinese handset. It was nice to see one adulterated in a good cause for once.
Yep. From a watch guy I know in Ukraine. 🙂 I don't know the model, but its got to be the ugliest, most dirt cheap low demand Soviet watch ever made. There are millions of them. So they usually get slopped up with fake "patriotic" faces, and you can't miss that craptrastic Chinese handset. It was nice to see one adulterated in a good cause for once.
He is the president of Ukraine. Why would the watch be Russian? Weird.
He is the president of Ukraine. Why would the watch be Russian? Weird.
Um, are you trolling me? Russia's only Aircraft carrier, the one that can't float? That's Ukrainian too.
He is the president of Ukraine. Why would the watch be Russian? Weird.
When it was part of the Soviet Union, there were no watch factories in Ukraine. Most of the factories were in Russia and I think there was one in Belarus (this one made single hand watches called "Luch"). The first Ukrainian watch company was established in 1997 in Kiev. So, unless that was was make by this company, it must be a mod of an old Russian watch.
https://watch.kyiv.ua/en/
When it was part of the Soviet Union, there were no watch factories in Ukraine. Most of the factories were in Russia and I think there was one in Belarus (this one made single hand watches called "Luch"). The first Ukrainian watch company was established in 1997 in Kiev. So, unless that was was make by this company, it must be a mod of an old Russian watch.
https://watch.kyiv.ua/en/
Thank you for the information. The last person I was talking to about this accused me of trolling, on my own post, then blocked me. Now I see their comments are gone. Don't mind me. I don't know much about that side of the world. I'm just trying to learn about the watches.
Look for a Soviet Era Scuba Dude, they do exist. When I'm more financially on my feet I want one. To get one that does not look like it was found in a shipwreck is $$$$$$
That's an interesting option. I'll have to think about it a bit. TBH, part of the initial appeal for me was the low $.
No. I don't abstain from wearing my Vostoks but neither am I parading with them.
If you want to buy a watch with the Vostok DNA, there is a company in Lithuania, called Vostok Europe that produces similar watches. It was established in 2003. They used to use Russian movements until 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea. Not sure what they are using now. Here is the web site:
https://vostok-europe.com/
It maybe has some Vostok DNA, VE is very much its own thing. I compare VE more to invicta than to Vostok.