Sturmanskie Strela Alarm

In French on the Sturmanskie Strela Alarm based on the Poljot 2612 mechanical alarm movement.

Offered by Volmax, I understand


Sturmanskie Strela Alarm : une « alarme mécanique » entrée de gamme

Photo from article

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Modifications of Caliber 3105

Juri Levenberg's German site (and defunct blog) has scans of the caliber 3105 modifications.

Some of which have apparently never seen the light of day.

Well, at least I have never seen them used in any watch. But others did make it, albeit for a short time. 

A base 3105 caliber -- as is known it is the cal. 3133 less the stopwatch and minute counter apparatus.

3105.01 has a moonphase and a moon calendar complication.

Only the date window is at three o'clock in real life.

I am fortunate to have this movement in my Zaria Moonphase 3105.01. It qualifies as a rarity as only two to three thousand were ever made. The movement can also be found in some Volmax watches, in particular certain Buran models.

And now, the caliber 3105.02 - the complication here is a 24-hour scale.

3105.03 with a day/night indicator (and a 24-hour scale?). Seen in some Volmax watches, such as Aviator.

3105.04 -- open heart. Never seen.

This is more or less in the past now.

List of Okean 3133 Final Edition Owners

A list of owners of the Okean 3133 Final Edition 1975-2011 (sometimes also known as ... Okeah...) by Volmax, both originals AND duplicates.

For those unfamiliar with the short but sometimes sordid history of this watch, this would be a good place to start. But there are also other sources out there and in several languages therefore just google it, if you please.

Here's the watch in question -- my timepiece, a duplicate.

Number 20/300. This is not a Spanish forum original but, as I said, one of those duplicates apparently additionally made by Volmax in an unknown quantity hopefully not exceeding the original run, i.e. no "triplicates". 

Click the link below to view the list.

List setup is as follows:

First Column -- originals made by Volmax for a Spanish watch enthusiasts forum, Hablemos de Relojes - HdR.

Second Column -- Volmax "duplicates".

Third Column -- reserved for now.

Owners are (not) identified solely by their forum monikers and the forum they belong to or are most active on, all information is freely available in the public domain.

I should make it clear that I am more (marginally) interested in the fate of duplicate Okeans (seeing as my own watch is one of those duplicates) and their actual number in existence. For this reason I will not update the first column, which is already much outdated as I understand, but I am only going to update the second -- duplicates -- column, and I hope it won't be necessary to do anything in the third one ))

☭☭☭OKEAN F.E. 1976-2011 LIST⚓ ⚓ ⚓ 

Volmax Watch Catalogs 2013

Mechanical alarm wristwatches - Poljot 2612 movement, Open Outer Space series.

Mechanical alarm watches -Volmax 2013


Sturmanskie watches, quartz and mechanical, series Sputnik, Arktika, Gagarin, Outer Space Pioneers, Open Outer Space, Ocean (Okeah), Traveler, Mars.

Sturmanskie by Volmax 2013 - a large and picture heavy PDF file, 45 pages.

Montre du Jour, Sept 27, 2013: Okeah 3133 Final Edition by Volmax

My watch of the day today is an Okeah 3133 Final Edition.

Design for Denissov Watches

Have you ever wondered who makes watch designs for Denissov?

Well I am about to tell you whether you have or haven't. It would appear that Katia Helwig and her design firm are responsible for most of the Denissov designs as well as most of the watch designs of other remaining Poljot offshoots.

Check out these links.

http://keyhelwig.com/en/portfolio/nautiulus.php

Not everything works on the site. To navigate, use pictures on the right, first navigate between projects on far right, then click for pictures in the other column. 

http://watchdesignconsulting.com/

It seems even a tourbillon was once on the cards. Picture from the site.

There's also this large PDF in the download section, which suggests that her most recent work is Mars for Volmax (opens a pdf file).

http://watchdesignconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/helwig08_2013.pdf

Georgian Wine is Back

It is back! After some unpleasantness in the recent past plus some lengthy import bans, Georgian wine is back in Moscow, and a jolly good thing it is too.

Kvanchkara & my Okeah 3133 chronograph

And my Okeah (Ocean) 3133 chronograph by Volmax.

Kindzmarauli

In the refrigerator.

Khvanchkara and Kindzmarauli with my Okeah 3133 for company.

I have already tried it of course. And when I did I liked it. It is very good and the taste gets remembered and the next day you kinda want to indulge again. It is about 11% Alc.

The Volmax Okeah 3133 chronograph is in my collection and I am going to do a post on it in the near future.

Strela & Pilot's Jacket

Some pictures of my Strela 3133 (212/500) vs my Avirex Pilot's Jacket

  

Both cost me a small fortune :)

But I feel they complement each other. Considering that Sturmanskie means Flight Navigator's (watch). Except I might need a brown strap. But maybe not -- just a pair of black shoes. 

Hi!

This watch is powered by the famous (if not to say notorious) Poljot 3133 movement which also happens to be part of my nick so I really had to buy it.

Good luck! (I need it)

Bye-bye, now.

In fact, it is a bye-bye in a very literal sense of the word as these Strelas are mostly out of stock and Volmax is not planning to make any more and would be hard pressed even if it wanted to seeing as the 3133 movement is no longer in production.  

I did a review of this watch in Russian on this forum thread.

http://forum.watch.ru/showthread.php?t=156215. 

But am also planning to do one in English for this blog. Like, Mañana. 

The 3133 heart

More pictures after the jump.