I follow recent developments of the watch industry in Russia and one of the companies that  is worth mentioning is Molnija. As you probably all know Molnija was originally established in Soviet Union as ČČZ - Čeljabinsk časovoj zavod - in 1947. At first it was specialized in special watches for military purposes (airplane, tank, truck watches) but soon the production of pocket watches started (in cooperation with 2MČZ). ČČZ in time became a pocket watch specialist and pocket watches with movement 3602 were it's main product known worldwide. In 1960 company was renamed after it's main brand to Molnija. Company hardly survived post USSR period, but in 2010 it was privatized and became a solid company again. In latest years Molnija launched a lot of different models, seems that guys there have a lot of good ideas, since Molnija's latest watches are well designed and uses good quality materials. A variety of different movements are used. To be concrete, at the moment their offer consist of: AČS (named after board watches for airplanes) with quartz Ronda 3520.D or mechanical Miyota 8215, Baikal with Miyota 8215, Chameleon with Miyota 8215, Energy with quartz Ronda Z60, Evolution with quartz Miyota 6S21, Etude with own 3603 mechanical movement, Green Ray with 3603, Tribute 1984 and Tribute 1984 ver.2 with 3603 and Pearl with Ronda 715. Special watch is Hyron, which does not have any Molnija brand insignia on the watch and can be understood as separate brand. Hyron uses Selitta 215-1 hand winding movement.

Today I would like to share with you my first impressions of the watch from the new collection - called NEVA - from Alexander Shorokoff brand. I have just received it so this impressions are really fresh..

I am quite sure that the vast majority of you who are not from Russia have never heard of Tsedro watch company. And even though I collect soviet and Russian watches  for quite a while now, even I was not familiar with this brand until recently either.

Today, I would like to present you a very interesting, monstrous watch from the brand Specnaz. Even though this brand is already presented on my web pages, I think that for the vast majority of the readers this brand is not well known, so I will start this review with a short presentation of the brand and the company behind this brand.

I must start with the crucial remark. This is not a review of the original Fiyta spacemaster with hand winded movement which was developed for and used in a China space program, but this review focus on a comercial commemorative version of the stated watch. Since lately several comercial versions were issued, I need to be even more precise - review only toggles Shenzhou 10 commemorative watch.

Since the whole world it turning upside down in last two years, it is maybe a right time to present a watch which really does everything opposite to what we are used to. I am talking about Raketa Russian Code.

When I first published my review about Raketa Baikonur, one of forum members commented that Slava also issued new Slava Televizor watch. I was not aware of that and this information intrigued me to check about this watch and buy it. That idea was realised during the new year's sale in Slava web shop and since I also owe original Slava Tank watch, I have decided to prepare this comparison of the original and reissue watches.

75 years has passed since the WW2 ended. In some countries this historic moment is still among the most important in it's history and miltary parades, holidays, etc. are organised. Russia is for sure one of the leading countires in celebration of the "Great Victory".

If you follow at least a bit russian watch industry, you might have heard that in 2015 Raketa announced a production of a new automatic movement and a series of new watches based on that new movement. But the announced prices for those new watches were quite high - especially for collectors of USSR or Russian watches which used to be "spoiled" that this watches are cheap. I believe a lot of collectors have a second thought about buying a Raketa watch priced in a 1000 EUR range or more. I admit I also was one of those guys who hesitated about purchasing a new Raketa. But this year's black Friday gave me the opportunity to "pull the trigger" and to buy one. I choose Raketa Baikanur to be my first "new" Raketa. Those who know my collections can sure understand, why. Namely it fits to my "Space" and "Russian" collections.