Vostok-Europe Watches – Inspiring Designs, Impeccable Quality

There’s a story behind every model of the Vostok Europe watches. These are men’s watches designed for the most extreme of sporting activity. The initial story began when a Soviet watch making plant was shifted to Chistopol, Tatarstan Russia. Since this was during the period of the World War, the factory manufactured only defence equipment for the Soviet military. After the war ended, the plant began manufacturing mechanical timepieces.

The 1960s saw the emergence of the Vostok brand, the name apparently inspired by the Russian space program. In 1965, Vostok was the Russian Defence Ministry’s official watch supplier. The iconic “Komandirskie” watch model was created in the same year. Gaining experience and  a standing in the watch industry, the brand’s next launch was the Amphibia – a dive watch that boasted of 200m water resistance capability. By the 1980s Vostok was producing millions of mechanical timepieces every year.

Vostok launched a collection of 1940s-inspired watches in the 21st century -known as the Kirovskie K-43 Collection, followed by another one with luxury watches called Kremlevskie Collection. These were limited edition watches aimed at the luxury market.  Over the years, the brand has never looked back, churning out some of the most dependable mechanical watches with intriguing designs inspired by extreme sports and collections being named after the Russian achievements in engineering, explorations and space.

Vostok-Europe watches are designed to handle all kinds of extreme conditions emerging out of car racing, space explorations, mountaineering expeditions, underwater adventures and much more. Vostok Europe watch collections are a tribute to the achievements of the extreme adventurers who have contributed to European history. But this is not the only reason to own a Vostok-Europe timepiece.

Vostok-Europe is all about custom built watches that are created and hand-assembled by their own designing teams based in Vilnius, Lithuania. These are not your everyday watches, rather they possess a signature look that makes them stand out and make their presence felt.

Rugged components make for rugged watches and Vostok-Europe knows this very well. The brand therefore, makes use of only the best quality materials, components and movements for their timepieces. Only surgical grade stainless steel or marine-grade bronze or titanium is used to build the watch cases. Straps are either leather, nylon or silicon and the watch lens is a sturdy mineral crystal. 

Top grade Swiss, Japanese and Russian watch movements make up the beating heart of the Vostok-Europe watch. Latest luminous technologies are used to ensure perfect visibility in the most extreme conditions. Most of the Vostok-Europe models use tritium tube technology for illumination

Each Vostok-Europe timepiece goes through stringent inspection processes and quality controls before it leaves the factory. Thus, you are assured of the best quality, well-designed and dependable timepiece from the Vostok-Europe brand.

Find your Vostok-Europe timepiece from the collections displayed at https://www.citywatches.co.uk/shop/vostok-europe/ today.