SSN-571 Watch Overview from Vostok-Europe
Posted by Craig Hester on Jun 1st 2021
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Sturmanskie Gagarin Automatic Watches
Posted by Craig Hester on Nov 23rd 2020
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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
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Behind the Name: European Watches and Their Significant Names
Posted by Craig Hester on Jan 31st 2019
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
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