Showing posts with label Vostok 2612.1 Signal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vostok 2612.1 Signal. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Vostok 2612.1 Signal Mechanical Alarm Wristwatch

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.