Vostok – The Company

I would like to start with a small amount of history on the company behind this watch as it may not be an immediately familiar brand.

The Vostok Company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan. Only defence equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches.

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. The experience gained through development of the army watch led to the Amphibia , a stainless-steel watch able to withstand a 200 metre depth (20atm). By 1980, Vostok Watch Makers was producing 4.5 million timepieces per year.

Vostok watches have frequently been worn in space by Russian cosmonauts, some of the more famous Vostok watch users are the cosmonauts Gerogi Grechko and Yuri Romanenko

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