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Vostok |
Most of these links are in Russian, so unless you can read Russian, put these links into an on-line translator such as Altavista Babelfish. This link http://www.watch.ru/business/economy/cccp_eco.shtml indicates 1999 production and employment figures for the main watch factories of the former U.S.S.R. I was unaware that Vostok watches had been copied, but http://www.watch.ru/brand/vostok/fake.shtml tells of illegal Chinese copies of Vostok military watches.
Some of my information came from http://www.watch.ru/salon2000/russia/invar.shtml, and the same thing a year later: http://www.watch.ru/salon2001/russia/
There's a great mostly English language discussion forum, mostly about Poljot (although including other Russian watches too) at: http://www.watchuseek.com/poljotforum/ |