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Historic Story: Vostok-Europe Watches Design and Construction

Posted by Craig Hester on Oct 1st 2019

Historic Story: Vostok-Europe Watches Design and Construction
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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European Watch Review: Vostok-Europe Energia Bracelet Watch

Posted by Craig Hester on Sep 15th 2019

European Watch Review: Vostok-Europe Energia Bracelet Watch
Hey everybody. Craig Hester here with R2Awatches.com thank you for joining us today as we continue our journey together through the watches that are available@R2Awatches.com. If you're watching this on YouTube, be sure and hit like hymns like and subscribe. Easy for me to say. If you are watching this on Facebook you want to join the Vostok-Europe Timepieces group on Facebook. It is the most …
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​Watches, Accessories, and More: Baselworld Watch Fair 2019 Observations

Apr 25th 2019

​Watches, Accessories, and More: Baselworld Watch Fair 2019 Observations
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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