Vintage Watch Vostok Cardi Pilot Automatic Military Air Force 1980s

  
Vintage Watch Vostok Cardi Pilot Automatic Military Air Force 1980s. Excellent, vintage watches produced in the USSR for the Soviet people. ; literally meaning "East") is a Soviet & russian watchmaker based in Chistopol, Russia.

The Vostok Watch Makers company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan. Only defence equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the company did not begin using the "Vostok" brand name until the 1960s. Presumably, the "Vostok" brand was named after the Vostok space programme, as were some other soviet watch brands, namely Poljot and Raketa.

The mechanism is in good condition. Movement with a power reserve of up to 37 hours. Work time - Max wind aprx 37 hours of work.

Size (from lug to lug): 42 mm. Case Diameter (with crown): 42 mm. Case Diameter (without crown): 40 mm. Watch crystal diameter: 31 mm. Wish you a good shopping.