This rare, Russian, USSR, Vostok men's vintage dress wristwatch would be an excellent, affordable, and unique addition to your vintage watch collection, or a great way to start one!! Manufactured in the 1960's, at the Chistopol factory, the chrome over brass case measures 34 mm across, excluding crown and lugs, and surrounds an evenly-aged parchment guilloche dial contrasting with gold hour and minute hands, raised gold numbers, black outer chapter, and sub-second dial @ 6 o'clock. The reliable cal 443 manual wind Soviet 17 jewel movement has been recently professionally oiled, serviced, and adjusted, sets and winds smoothly, is running strong, and keeping good time. Please note: This particular watch, while running great and keeping very good time, it winds a little tightly and I have lowered the price for this reason. It may loosen up as time passes but, in the meantime, will work perfectly for you. It has a snap-down back and has been fitted with a new brown 18 mm genuine leather strap with stainless buckle. Please 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 and that we can, once again, offer their products to you. STOCK CODE: V-15 About the Brand The Vostok Watch Makers 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 defense equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the company did not begin using the "Vostok" brand name until the 1960s. Presumably, the "Vostok" brand was named after the Vostok space program, as were some other soviet watch brands, namely Poljot and Raketa. 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 "????? ?? ????", 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 We offer free, first class domestic shipping and ship worldwide Priority Mail to insure safe, swift, and reliable shipping to our international customers for a flat fee of $34.00. (Canada may be slightly less) Please note, we offer our items on multiple sites and will not be removed from other sites until payment has been received and rarely may mean that your selection may be sold out prior to your payment has posted. We are Stonehenge Watch Company and have been selling vintage timepieces and new watches on the internet for over 15 years with hundreds of happy, satisfied, often repeat, customers. Seller information stonehengewatchcompany (2936) We do our best to accurately describe items on our site and, if for any reason, you are disappointed in your purchase we will provide a swift and satisfactory resolution to your concern.