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I keep finding (mainly Eastern European) watches to lust after. Recording them here may be cheaper than buying them.
The Pebble: a smart watch that connect to your iPhone/Android and has a programmable e-paper (like a Kindle) display - i.e., the face could be any design you could imagine; plus it could display info from your phone, like emails, reminders or text messages. This is an awesome product... but too big for my wrist. Let's hope they create a smaller one.
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A tiny (30mm) automatic Luch ladies watch. It has a very blocky, almost brutal style that seems incongruous.
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Raketa watch with a nice clean face and a relatively restrained commemorative logo.
Love the numbers, and the linen-finish face. Sold for US $33 here: r.ebay.com/7wOq34
That Tissot Seastar again! They're making them again, according to Watchuseek. I hope they do the 24-hour dial variant, as I'd save up for it. (A lot of saving up to do, but still.)
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A quite interesting (though a little to complicated looking IMO) Tissot World Time 24-hour watch from the 1950s. Also... that case looks suspiciously new compared to the dial. Odd.
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A watch for athletes ("Sportivnie"), from 1957. It has a hacking mechanism (i.e., you can flick the second hand back to 12 for easy timing). Nice face, good story.
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The return of this beautiful Raketa watch to eBay. Is it the same one I saw months ago... or is it a different one? Stylish; vaguely deco... I am sorely tempted. r.ebay.com/Q0Imiz
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This Raketa watch celebrates the Russian moon mission Lunokhod-1 (Луноход = "moon walker"). I like the face, though it seems a little too heavily painted. I wonder if it's genuine New Old Stock, or just New. Sold for US $54 here: r.ebay.com/HSajUY
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A beautiful gold Vostok Komandirskie (Командирские= commander) military watch. Plus! It has a hacking mechanism - remember all those old films where the commandos synchronised their watches? £75 at r.ebay.com/EboS8j
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A watch with history: a Vostok Soviet-Chinese Friendship watch from late 1959. US $450 at http://r.ebay.com/QemRzd
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A rather nice 1980s Slava ("Cлава" = "Glory") watch - and automatic, too. £70.
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Another Vostok Megapolis - I don't like the face colour, but one would expect there are options. US $155
I've just discovered this, one of a new range of automatic Vostok watches. Love the case, and the face, though it's likely to be too big for me. US $123.90
A commemorative watch for the 50th anniversary (in 1992) of the "Novosibirsk Metal Works named after Kuzmin" (Anatoly Kuzman was the engineer-hero who founded the metal works during the war). It does seem like a fitting design for a retired steelworker. Here: r.ebay.com/TN6osC
I'm guessing by the chain fastened at the bottom, this little Chaika was made for nurses: r.ebay.com/AmEdMg
Very clean and pretty Raketa; no papers, New Old Stock apparently made in 1992. (It seems a lot of watches were made in 1992, one of the last years of the original Raketa...) here: r.ebay.com/EINXXh
This is the flip side of that sliderule. I really think this is a cool object. Here: r.ebay.com/PJNP8V
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Not actually a watch, but a circular slide rule. Here: r.ebay.com/PJNP8V
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Nice colours in this Raketa, though I normally dislike gold watches. Currently US $99.
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Breitling watch commissioned for the Canadian Royal Air Force
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Having come across these Tissots in my hunt for the perfect 24hour watch, I find myself attracted to the shape of their cases. This is a ladies variant, pleasingly smaller; US $100 at r.ebay.com/qP6tSM
And this watch is very similar, and with the additional "attraction" of gold. The 1970s, just like every decade, had moments of excess. Passed in at US $90 at r.ebay.com/jeIMK8
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This Raketa is huge. And ugly. It would fit on my ankle and still be loose. US $75
One for the ladies: a tiny чайка (Chaika="Seagull") brand watch on a bracelet. This is kind of an odd-looking thing, isn't it. Currently US $20.
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Another Raketa, an early one apparently, which might explain the Pobeda-like positioning of the second hand. Note the rocket above the name: «Ракета» = "Rocket". Currently US $23 r.ebay.com/kEDAVM
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David Winter You know, I would not have thought of myself becoming a watch enthusiast in a thousand years. But I really find myself drawn to the clean/clear designs of these, especially the Raketas and Vostoks... I'll know who to blame if this becomes an expensive fascination!
Alan Macdougall I felt the same. But once I took my first punt on buying something from Russia on eBay… so nice, fully mechanical, with great value!
Strongly shaped Breitling Sicura (we assume) jump hour watch. I like the way the bottom of it curves around the wearer's wrist... though it would not work for me. Currently £135
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A very pretty (one assumes authentic) Bell and Ross Jump hour automatic watch. I like the face, and I'm a sucker for that powermeter at the 6pm position. Currently US $12,900 at r.ebay.com/VJPi4b
Interesting: this jump hour watch has a sort of automotive flavour. I've never heard of this brand though - perhaps it is Chinese? Currently US $19.
Perhaps clichéd now for me; yet another clean-faced Raketa. This one is quartz, so not for me... but what a face! Currently US $19 at r.ebay.com/H5NpXH
I like the concept of this watch - it only shows the current time, and in a quite understated way (colour excepted). (via @locknessie )
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This Raketa has classic slim hands, and a large and an interesting, slightly exotic-looking numeral typeface, both of which I've seen once or twice before. It would be great to track down this typeface!
Super-clean Raketa face–they can't be made cleaner and clearer than this. Currently £14 at r.ebay.com/9TRieM
I am guessing this watch commemorates the Russian navy built by Peter the Great; the ship is printed on the inside of the glass. Currently US $75 at r.ebay.com/4dIC9U.
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A textile-looking face and striped canvas strap give this Raketa watch a sort of sporty yet interesting look. Currently US $45 at r.ebay.com/Z02dX4.
(So this is an example of the new Raketa version of that earlier pin. I am not entirely convinced by this watch. See www.raketa.com for more.)
High-vis, zero at the top: this is an iconic Raketa design that they've recently started remaking. This one is a lot cheaper than the new ones though: US $39 at r.ebay.com/q4vOJN
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The (vaguely) interesting thing about this watch is not the Hammer & Sickle (fairly common on post-Soviet nostalgia watches) but the angled numbers for ease of reading when on your wrist. I assume. Starting at US $39 at r.ebay.com/kyiQC5
Clean face, spiragraph style Raketa watch. Very nice. Passed in at £50 at r.ebay.com/JIQ1Wu
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So, tacky commemorative Raketa watches? Try this one. Garish colours; poorly painted dial; the best thing about this is the mechanism. There are actually classy cosmonaut watches; this isn't one. US $39 on eBay.
This sort of watch bothers the heck out of me. I know that Raketa in particular makes lots of commemorative watches, but I find it hard to believe that patriotic Russians would be happy with this one commemorating a Nazi aeroplane. There are a lot of these for sale on eBay though; I hope they're not legit Raketas.
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Yes, it's a 70's TV dial watch; yes, it's another Raketa. Lovely colour though. Passed in on eBay at US $70.
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A beautiful mint Soviet-era LED (i.e., you have to press and hold a button to see the time) digital watch. Very cool... and don't you love that name: "Elektronika". Currently US $400 at r.ebay.com/NGpOO4
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Another Tissot Seastar 24 hr. One day, one of these will be miiiiine...! Currently US $202 at r.ebay.com/TXP8kC
“Zoomin Watch by Gennady Martynov & Emre Cetinkoprulu.” —Very very cool.
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This Glycine Airman variant is far too big a watch for me; and it's not automatic. But the Regulateur single-hand style is pretty cool. Currently AU $560 at r.ebay.com/YFsV0O
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Interesting Raketa watch with three sub dials. I really like the face. Currently at £7.50 at r.ebay.com/4eup6J
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