Trivia
- The Company also makes a 12 jewel, very accurate mechanical submarine wall clock that was in Officers areas on board, known to stay on time in a wide band of temperatures. It is highly sought after in certain collectors markets especially in Soviet Union items collectors.
- Usually Poljot watches are associated with the Soviet Space Program. But Vostok watches were also frequently worn in space by the Russian cosmonauts. Some of the famous Vostok watch users were the cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Yuri Romanenko.
- After the Desert Storm operation in 1992, the Pentagon awarded soldiers from the allied forces with a special edition Vostok Amphibian military watch called Desert Shield.
- Vostok was the only producer of chronometer precision wristwatch in Soviet Union (Volna, Almaz and Vostok Precision), based on their movement Vostok 2809 with 22 jewels. The watches were produced in 1960s.
- In the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Steve (Bill Murray) is wearing a classic Vostok Amphibia watch.
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