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  • #52
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    mtb_kng wrote: »
    Also, is it real? :confused:

    Looks very real and genuine to me.

    However, to my limited understanding (and I may well be wrong) this looks like a Komandirskie and not an Amphibia.

    Difference would be chromed brass case instead of stainless steel and water resistance of 20-30 m instead of 200 m.

    Movement is the same 31 jewel automatic in both.

    Very nice looking watch and the back really is nice and different. (The bottom of the inscription says automatic or rather automatic winder ...the top I have no idea)

    Luckily (for you) it's not the most recent model because these have really hideous bezels.


  • #53
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    Oh, forgot to mention that. It is infact a Kommandirskie :)


  • #54
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I don't know if its either tbh.....


    I know there was komandirskie amphibias produced just to confuse us in telling the two apart :o

    How about the water gasket or the crown? Surely the crown would be far thicker on the amphibias for the 200m water resistance


  • #55
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    Got a message from the guy who owns the watch, turns out he has his watch on a Timex Expidition also! =P
    Sorry so long in responding. I've been away from WUS for a while.

    This watch is a Soviet-era Vostok Amphibia. It uses a 2409 movement, which in my opinion is the best of the Vostok movements, basically a 2414 without the date feature. I believe it was produced in the mid-1980s, although I have heard some people give dates as early as 1979 and others as late as 1989. I purchased it off eBay as NOS from a seller in Thailand using the name "thaigoodwill". He had a lot of these, and sold them one after another for over a year, but i haven't seen any in a while. But I haven't checked in a while, either.

    It is an excellent watch, well worth the $50 I paid for it, and one of my favorites. The lume dots are long done for, but the watch itself is very attractive and accurate, not to mention tough as nails. I added a Timex Expedition strap which matches it well.


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