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Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by anonu »

stevekemp wrote: post #5

If you like Soviet watches you'll probably enjoy this index of movements: https://17jewels.info/ I collect mechanical watches and have a fair number of vintage Soviet watches in my collection - Rateka, Vostok, Poljot, etc. Cheap, reliable, and often with striking designs. (Today's watch is a Poljot - Russian: Полёт, literally meaning "flight", is a brand of Soviet/Russian wristwatches, produced since 1964 by the Firs…

> Casio terrorist watch

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-c...

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by alfiedotwtf »

wildrhythms wrote: post #39
Fnoord wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Pebble can go on for a week (longer without smart features enabled). My smartwatch, Fossil Hybrid HR, works for 2 weeks with smart features enabled. They go automatically off with < 10% battery, after which the watch still functions (I would prefer the option to put the smart features off, as well as bluetooth).

I loved the Pebble (RIP), but I got way longer battery life than just 1 week. I now have the Amazfit Bip, and easily get 3-4 weeks of battery life.

I'm in the market for a new watch as I just ditched the Apple Watch after moving back to Android (LinageOS). Not wanting to be locked in yet again to a watch/phone platform, but not knowing how long before PineWatches were back in stock, I didn't know what to look out for.

Missing my Pebbles, this looks like an awesome replacement. Thanks for the link!

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by betaby »

SeanLuke wrote: post #36

I have been told the following joke multiple times by former Iron Curtain denizens: Soviet citizen 1: Look at my new watch! Made right here! Soviet citizen 2: It's so beautiful, elegant, and small! Soviet citizen 1 [picking up two large, dense boxes by their handles, one per hand] : Yeah, but these are the batteries it runs on.

You are referring to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJh6RH3bzw

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

contrarian_5 wrote: post #35
s5300 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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yes, exactly. everyone is very quick to point out how evil the united states is. but there is no public reaction about the soviet union in which millions upon millions of people were deliberately murdered. more people than the nazis and the united states. i point out the absence of objectivity when i see it because i am a good citizen.

What if you separated the doings of the nations' leaders and military from what this is, a discussion about old school technology in the form of watches? One presumes the watchmakers didn't run gulags in their spare times.

Do you show up in discussions of 60's muscle cars and moan about the USA dropping nuclear bombs in Japan?

I was wondering what sort of "good citizen" has this username and spouts this... stuff, so I checked your profile. You wrote previously:

> my peers seemed super petty and intellectually average. easily pulled into dogmatic, fuzzy ideas.

Your peers, you say...

At least learn to capitalize your sentences!

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by Ancapistani »

nimbius wrote: post #42

I fully recommend a Vostok, from the original factory in Chistopol. Their mechanical selection is affordable and bulletproof, if not somewhat overstated in its design. https://meranom.com/en/

One of the three watches I regularly wear is a Vostok Retro 1934, from Meranom.

If anyone is shopping, I’ll happily vouch for Meranom.

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by Ancapistani »

wdb wrote: post #27

Yeah, I still want a Soviet Union watch. There also some old Chinese Seagull watches that look great. I have a small collection of watches (only have 19). They sparkle joy :) I have a Apple Watch (1st gen) but never really liked it I keep going back to the mechanical watches.My latest addition is the gorgeous 1815 Moonphase

Heh - I have three watches that I regularly wear.

By far my favorite and primary is a Maratac “mid-Pilot”. It’s a simple Miyota (Citizen) movement, but completely unbranded and reliable.

My other two are a Vostok Retro 1934 and a Seagull 1963 :)

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by samatman »

stevekemp wrote: post #5

If you like Soviet watches you'll probably enjoy this index of movements: https://17jewels.info/ I collect mechanical watches and have a fair number of vintage Soviet watches in my collection - Rateka, Vostok, Poljot, etc. Cheap, reliable, and often with striking designs. (Today's watch is a Poljot - Russian: Полёт, literally meaning "flight", is a brand of Soviet/Russian wristwatches, produced since 1964 by the Firs…

The Withings Steel lasts a couple weeks on a charge, and it can do simple step counting, heart rate, some very unobtrusive notifications. It actually got me interested in watches; I'm no collector but I have a few at this point. It also looks like a watch, in that it has physical hands which move. Watching it find the new time zone as soon as my phone connects when I land in a new place was pretty satisfying.

I gotta say though: stick with mechanicals. There's an elegance to it which smart watches will never touch. And I say that as someone who has settled on the Apple Watch as my daily driver. It's so useful! Does a bunch of small things that add up to a great tool, and I'm even fond of it. But it... isn't a watch!

I'm looking forward to dressy evening stuff happening more, so I can leave it behind and put on something nice.

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by samatman »

contrarian_5 wrote: post #31

its strange how soviet union stuff is a fetish for coastal people but you never see much nazi stuff. the soviets murdered more people than the nazis and they are objectively evil. but that detail is simply lost somehow.

If a watch enthusiast owned and wore a 1938 Lange System Glashütte swept-second watch, I wouldn't think he was a fan of what the Nazis did either. I'd think he had a cool vintage timepiece.

Re: Watches from the Soviet Union

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Post by RugnirViking »

Recently was reading about a rocket explosion in Baikonur in which the chief engineer was killed. The document stated that the only remains that could be found of him was a small amount of melted gold embedded in the ground from one of his medals, and his watch, which had survived whole
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