Time now to catalog another watch from my collection of mainly Russian and other affordable watches (but many of them remarkable in their own way) something I have been doing for close to three years already.
You can find my collection listed and linked to on the right-hand panel on this blog.
Here is a Vostok 2612.1 (Signal) with the 1MWF Poljot 2612 movement, still in its box here.
Bought new as recently as 2012 or 2013 from the factory website. Now (and for ever) out of stock.
The styling is very questionable, however I have no major complaints about it, except the Vostok screw-on crown assemblies which are too feebly on this watch.
However, the main attraction of this watch is its mechanical alarm movement.
This simple back covers the 1MWF Poljot 2612 mechanical alarm movement.
Mechanical alarm movements are rare these days especially when encased in affordable watches.
More to the point, none are practically left, there was the ST2800 from China but it was made for a very short time and is no longer in production, I think.
The Poljot 2612 was also terminated in about 2009 after a lifetime of production.
Here is the movement in operation in two short videos.
Video 1, shorter.
Video 2, somewhat longer.
Worth noting that the Poljot 2612 movement is likely related to the Caliber AS 1475.
A manual for the watch in Russian.
The watch was manufactured in 2012 at Vostok and I probably bought it in the same year for RUB1300.
Finally more photos made soon after I got the watch.
HoroLex: Восток 2612.1 (сигнал): Пришло время откаталожить в этом блоге и эти часы. Часы "Восток 2612" (сигнал)... здесь они еще в коробке. Дизайн, конеч...
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