Repairing & (Not) Adjusting a 1960s Russian Poljot 2409 Wristwatch
I’m continuing my march through the watch stash to fix and adjust the many watches I’ve collected over the years and swore I’d get to some day. Today is the… Read more »
Tag: Russian watches
Cleaning & Adjusting a 1960s Russian Boctok (Vostok) 2209 Wristwatch
One of my recurring New Year’s Resolutions is to stop buying crusty and broken watches to work on until I clear out the backlog of watches I already have. I… Read more »
Repairing & Adjusting a 1970s “Hulk Green” Russian Poljot 2609H Wristwatch
A New Year’s resolution that’s sure to fail is “don’t buy more broken watches on eBay until you fix the ones you have,” but I’m making a good effort and… Read more »
Adjusting a Russian Wostok 2409A Wristwatch with a Smooth Balance Wheel
A friend of mine is one of the watchless—people who haven’t worn a watch for years. But he’s intrigued, I can tell, so I offered him a watch from my… Read more »
Adjusting a Russian Wostok 2209 Wristwatch to 5 Positions
I’ve been wanting to get a “weekend beater,” a hand-wound watch with no date—something I can wind up and wear over the weekend without leaving it on a winder during… Read more »
(Not) Adjusting a Russian ZIM 2602 Wristwatch
The world of watch collecting is wide: no kind of watch is so odd that it doesn’t have a passionate community of people arguing about it on an Internet forum,… Read more »