It's now Russian time

"E90M3" (e90m3) 04/09/2019 at 13:12 • Filed to: watchlopnik

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Just got my birthday present from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! If you can’t tell, it’s an old Russian watch and I love it.

Me RN:

Tristan > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 13:19

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I think Harbor Freight used to sell these through their catalog years back . I used to have one in my teens, but it was lost long ago. Self-winding, too, IIRC.

BeaterGT > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 13:20

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Russian Time you say? (work with me Kinja)

benjrblant > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 13:21

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Did BM2 make the band from human skin in Gulag?

E90M3 > Tristan 04/09/2019 at 13:22

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This one is manual winding. No idea the origin other than my friend got it at an estate sale. 

E90M3 > benjrblant 04/09/2019 at 13:24

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I’ve been told I can’t rule that out. 

StraightSix NoTorque Sedan > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 13:25

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Happy Birthday!

I have an old Vostok with a red face myself . I’ve accidentally smacked that thing into walls/doors and think its broken because after I wind it it no longer ticks, but a couple of days later I wind it again and its fine.

Also on the bottom of your watch face written in Cyrillic is “Made in the USSR”

E90M3 > StraightSix NoTorque Sedan 04/09/2019 at 13:27

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Appreciate it!

That’s weird, I heard getting people to work on Russian watches can be difficult, if you want anyone to take a look .

That it does. 

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 13:30

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Now that you can keep an eye on the time, you won’t feel like you are Russian around.

(this is the best I can do with my less than normal dose of coffee this morning)

E90M3 > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor 04/09/2019 at 13:30

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Punny, well done. 

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 14:01

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Haha thanks, I try (:

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 14:12

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GolfR bought it but little do we all know it was actually BM2 and JKM who made it in the gulag

benn454 > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 14:25

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One ping only.

E90M3 > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 04/09/2019 at 14:27

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RIP BM2

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 14:52

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fo real...I heard what happened

GLiddy > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 15:37

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Those are neat watches. I have a couple that I have i n their original little plastic boxes. There was a Russian dude at a gun show about 1991 that had a whole pile of them. I bought a tanker and a submariner . I think I gave $30 each. I did wear one of them for a very short time, but then cleaned it up and put it back in the box.

E90M3 > GLiddy 04/09/2019 at 15:45

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That’s pretty fucking neato. Planning on wearing this one occasionally, bought a NATO strap for it off of amazon: 

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor 04/09/2019 at 15:47

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Sure, but keep an eye on the weather or else you might get soviet.

oldmxer > E90M3 04/09/2019 at 21:57

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there’s a bunch of these on ebay, wondered if they were any good?

E90M3 > oldmxer 04/10/2019 at 06:21

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No idea. This one needed some work to make it tick again. I heard from my friend who gave it to me it can be difficult to find people willing to work on Russian watches.