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The year is 1992 and a young Lithuanian physicist named Igor Zubovskij toils away at the Vilnius radio measurement equipments research Institute with three colleagues. While most of the world looked on from the outside in and as the Soviet Union rapidly collapses, Zubovskij and his team live the increasing turmoil from the inside day after day working under classified Soviet directives. The t …

Hey everybody, Craig Hester here with R2Awatches.com and thank you for joining us again as we continue on our journey through all the watches that are available at R2Awatches.com today we are talking about the Energia from Vostok Europe. One of my favorite watches to talk about particularly in this execution, which is the original Marine grade bronze. If you're watching this on YouTube, you w …

This was my 12th Baselworld watch fair this past March. My first was 2006 (I skipped one year) but have visited the watch fair every year since up to now. Vostok-Europe, Sturmanskie, Tsikolia and others were all there as usual. Though Vostok-Europe was the only brand actually to have a both in the fair.For me, the Basel watch fair is in a lot of ways “just part of my job.” That is NOT to say that …

Taking a little time from watch designing and thinking about our next watch project, I was reading about the origin of the band name Toad the Wet Sprocket. That's an interesting enough story in and of itself.  Turns out it came from a 1970s Monty Python skit, where Eric Idle was trying to come up with a name so ridiculous, nobody would ever really think it could be a real band. Boy, was …