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Note: All of my vintage Soviet watches
are serviced and restored by professionals in The Ukraine. Their shops are now, for the most part, shuttered during the conflict there. We
hope that peace is restored soon to the Ukrainian people and that we can, once again, offer their
products to you.
The Vostok diving
watch Amphibia
The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for
the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the
creation of the well-known Komandirskie ("Commander's")
watch. The experience gained through development of the army watch led to
the Amphibia, a stainless-steel diving
watch able to
withstand a 200-metre depth (20atm). By 1980, Vostok Watch Makers was producing
4.5 million timepieces per year.
Watches sold to the military were marked "ЗАКАЗ МО
СССР", meaning "Ordered by the Ministry of Defense of the USSR".
These models were sold exclusively through Voentorg stores, which catered to
military personnel with identification only. Today, these models have become
sought-after collectibles.
At turn of the 21st century, Vostok launched a line of
1940s-style replicas called the Kirovskie K-43 collection.
Vostok also began producing a "luxury" line of watches called Kremlevskie.
Both lines are made of stainless steel, produced in limited quantities, and
aimed toward a more affluent consumer.
In 2004, Vostok Watch Makers began supplying movements to the
Koliz Company of Lithuania, makers of the Vostok Europe brand of timepieces.
In 2006, Vostok Watch Makers began marketing another line of
watches branded "Amphibia". This brand, like most other Vostok
products, features the familiar 31-jewel automatic (No. 2416B) movement. These
watches feature "diver" styling with polyurethane or stainless steel bands. An updated
version of the Komandirskie debuted in summer 2007, and a
special anniversary edition of the Amphibia (called the
"1967") appeared in early 2008.
Despite the introduction of the new lines of Komandirskie and Amphibia,
the "classic" models (mostly designed in 1960s and 1970s) of these
lines were still in production (as of 2014).
In early 2010, Vostok Watch Factory filed for bankruptcy and
their official website was disabled. The factory went through restructure and
resumed the production of watches and movements1
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