Calling all Vostok fan's: let's see your vostok!
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Carl
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Original Bracelet 😀 but the bezel is stuck 😠
I've enjoyed it but it may be on the move to make room for "the next one" 🤣
Original Bracelet 😀 but the bezel is stuck 😠
I've enjoyed it but it may be on the move to make room for "the next one" 🤣
I had a vostok that had a stuck bezel, i had to make the wire inside the bezel litterally round but it worked. Maybe you could try.
My 2 Dudes
Fun and, from my experience, surprisingly well built and accurate for the price.
I love the wonky crown. Not so much the lack of a quick set date.
Vostok Amphibia ref. 120512. (The "Teddy").
My first Vostok, and still my favorite.
After looking forever at all the available Vostoks, I saw Teddy Baldassarre's review on YouTube https://youtu.be/tiPqRZ8XWDY and never looked back.
For a sub-$100 watch, I enjoy wearing as much as anything. As a bonus, it's regulated to run at under a second a day.
I've found my people!! Here's my heavily modified amphibia that sees wear 9/10 days a week. I've got the ultimate secret sauce tip for bezel tuning, turns hit or miss work and broken retention springs into perfectly smooth "why did I ever want a UD bezel" bliss. Bonus pic of my Vostok... next to a Vostok!!
It's a really great watch
group shot of all my vintage ones.
Here's mine for today:
I've got another one that I'll probably take a picture of some other time!
I already posted this photo in another thread (on a related topic), but this is my watch of the day. A few bezels arrived from Meranom today, so I put one of them on the Komandirskie that I'm wearing. (The bezels were mostly purchased for use with an Amphibia that's still in transit, but I realized that they may work equally well with other watches.)
Solid and uncomplicated (pun intended).
Moved it onto a Nato (ironically) as the original strap was rather nasty
Love the watch but not a big fan of the strap they come with.
Love the watch but not a big fan of the strap they come with.
I switched out the terrible nylon strap from my scuba guy
Love the strap on the red one
My 2 Dudes
Fun and, from my experience, surprisingly well built and accurate for the price.
I love the wonky crown. Not so much the lack of a quick set date.
Just picked my first scuba guy like yours changed out the strap its so bad
Vostok Amphibia ref. 120512. (The "Teddy").
My first Vostok, and still my favorite.
After looking forever at all the available Vostoks, I saw Teddy Baldassarre's review on YouTube https://youtu.be/tiPqRZ8XWDY and never looked back.
For a sub-$100 watch, I enjoy wearing as much as anything. As a bonus, it's regulated to run at under a second a day.
Love that one need to look into it more
bought from another collector in bundle deal...about $80, these cannot be bought where I Iive. use it more than I can explain?!? its so weird. keep popping out the bezel with my nail. water proofed it already😎
bought from another collector in bundle deal...about $80, these cannot be bought where I Iive. use it more than I can explain?!? its so weird. keep popping out the bezel with my nail. water proofed it already😎
The bezels kept popping on one on mine too, after a lot of tinkering i managed to make it "pop" completly and it stopped. You must tinker a lot with the wire under the bezel.