What happened to the Soviet Market?
Anyone knows what happened to the Soviet Market website? https://soviet.market/?
Since Russia 🇷🇺 started invarion to Ukraine 🇺🇦 in 2022, they sadly stopped receiving orders. The website as such is working (no emails returned so far) but just wanted to share my frustration with you as this particular watch in the picture is still on my radar and surprisingly you can actually place it in the shopping cart (unfortunately there is no way to pay for it 🥲).
Anyway, feel free to comment if you managed to buy something from them lately. In the meantime, here is a brief story of the Vostok Company:
Vostok company story starts back in 1942, when one of the Moscow watch-making plants has been evacuated from Moscow to a little town Chistopol located on the Kama River.
Defense equipment was the only company output during war years, but as soon as the war was over Vostok started to make mechanical wrist watches - the main production item ever since. In 1965 Vostok company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defense Department of the Soviet Union. This year marks the creation of the world-famous “Komandirskie" ("Commander") watch.
Military watch grew very popular even with people who were unaware which end of the gun bullet comes off, mainly due to high precision, excessive reliability and durability. The appearance of the watch also contributes to its appeal - functional and clear-cut design invoked the feeling of belonging to the tough world of combat professional.
The experience which Vostok gained through development of the army watch was the foundation of our next special watch - "Amphibian". This impressive timepiece in stainless-steel case endured the depth of 2000 meters - kind of a wrist submarine. Success of the professional watches determined the company's present philosophy - to create mechanical watches maintaining precise timekeeping at any temperature, in any environment, surviving heavy pressure and blows.
The viability of the chosen strategy is now time-proven. A vast multitude of people both in Russia and abroad boasting "Vostok" watches and various international prizes awarded for high quality and commercial success testify to this. In 1996 Vostok started a partnership with US "Capital Trading" company aiming to create a new generation timepiece. The watch assembled to US sales by Sputnik TM technology.
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Obsessed with watches…
That’s a really cool looking Vostok. Thanks for the history. I love the one I own personally and I know most people who own one like there’s as well.
That’s a really cool looking Vostok. Thanks for the history. I love the one I own personally and I know most people who own one like there’s as well.
This is a beautiful one Skyler! Thanks for sharing!
#vostok
I just happened to be wearing one of mine today. Have not bought anything off the aforementioned site. Except for the one I bought of a vendor in Red Square they came from eBay.
Love the laurel bezel!!! 👏👏👏 Nice!
#vostok
I wish I'd collected even more Vostoks back in the day. I did have 7 but now I only have 5, and 2 of those need attention. I was going to collect as many different dials and case shapes as possible, but I managed to stop myself before I became bankrupt. Now I think I should have followed through with my plan.
Hmm, i do not know what happend to the mentioned site. I have 2 dealers, (german based) for Vostoks: https://vostok-uhr.de/ & https://www.poljot24.de/marken/vostok.html (the one i got my sovjet watches from)- maybe these buddies can help you with your search. Good Luck
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the US and EU issued sanactions. All sites in Russia have been blocked. Also all forms of payment have been blocked. They have no way of processing payment. Only internal Russian banks can accept and process payment. So unless you live in Russia, Belarus or any other handful of countries still conducting business with Russia, your out of luck.
The Vostok factory website is still very much online but it's the payments that are blocked. I understand that there are ways around it but it's an offence to do so (in UK at least).
I had this one on today. Wish I'd bought the others I was thinking about.
I wish I'd collected even more Vostoks back in the day. I did have 7 but now I only have 5, and 2 of those need attention. I was going to collect as many different dials and case shapes as possible, but I managed to stop myself before I became bankrupt. Now I think I should have followed through with my plan.
There are still places where you can find them. Amazon is one of them. Try this https://meranom.com/es/
Hmm, i do not know what happend to the mentioned site. I have 2 dealers, (german based) for Vostoks: https://vostok-uhr.de/ & https://www.poljot24.de/marken/vostok.html (the one i got my sovjet watches from)- maybe these buddies can help you with your search. Good Luck
Thank you Luzi!!!!! I will try…
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the US and EU issued sanactions. All sites in Russia have been blocked. Also all forms of payment have been blocked. They have no way of processing payment. Only internal Russian banks can accept and process payment. So unless you live in Russia, Belarus or any other handful of countries still conducting business with Russia, your out of luck.
That’s what I thought…