Historic Story: Vostok-Europe Watches Design and Construction
Posted by Craig Hester on Oct 1st 2019
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
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What Exactly is an Automatic Watch?
Posted by Craig Hester on Aug 30th 2018
Every watch collector undoubtedly has an "automatic" or "self-winding" watch in their collection. There may be some purists out there that only want a manual wind watch, but that would have to be a very small percentage of the watch buying public.When it comes to the watches we carry on R2Awatches.com, we actually still sell manual watches. But the lion's share are automatic. You hear these w
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