{"product_id":"vostok-amphibia-radio-room-as07153","title":"Vostok Amphibia 'Radio Room'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThough westerners tend to concentrate on Swiss, American, German, and Japanese-made watches, eastern-made timepieces are gaining ground as a niche collecting space. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRussian watchmaker Vostok, which was founded — believe it or not — during World War II, has been making affordable watches for decades. Something of a novelty in the West, their wares aren’t known for, shall we say, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003echronometric precision\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, but rather for the charm they exude: Colorful dials, mechanical movements — it’s all here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis particular watch, a ‘Radio Room’ dating to the 1970s, features an interesting dial design mimicking the clocks once used in ships’ radio rooms: Four separate bands in red demarcate 3-minute periods during which all non-distress signals were banned from use, so that ships in duress would have better chances of their distress signals being received. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoused in a 42mm stainless steel case with an acrylic crystal, an unsigned crown, and a painted black and red timing bezel, it features a matte black Tritium ‘radio room’ exotic dial with printed 'Arabic' indices, a matching ‘broad arrow’ handset, and an anchor symbol at 5:00. Powered by the manually wound Vostok 2409A movement, it includes its Cyrilic information pamphlet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA sufficiently interesting watch on its own merit, this particular example also happens to date from the period of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA cool piece of history, indeed!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vostok","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39924558725207,"sku":"40991060","price":390.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/AS07153_40991060_VOSTOK_AMPHIBIA_470444-6.jpg?v=1661454573","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/vostok-amphibia-radio-room-as07153","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}