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Poljot Amphibian Diver

jiehong — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:32:09 +0000

Finally found this diver from Poljot. Poljot watches are mainly dress, chronographs but never a diver except this piece.

The condition is consider pretty good as the bezel is plastic, the markers are usually worn off and the second hand often replaced.

Most Russian has 2 piece case back, in theory, when you screw a 1 piece case back, there may be instances where you are distorting the gasket as you screw down.

Poljot 2627.H movement

23 jewels on the rotor

Aquadive Caribbean 1000M Vintage Diver

jiehong — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:15:58 +0000

The Aquadive 1000M vintage diver watch under the company Jenny. It’s a monobloc case, meaning it’s a one big piece of steel case.

When Jenny created the Caribbean 1000, it was the very first 1000m dive watch and the patents were first registered in 1964 with a tripple safe one piece case.

It was later branded by Jenny for Philip Watch, Jaques Monnat, Jaquet Droz, Ollech & Wajs, Aquadive, Fortis, and probably some others.

Today the Jenny Family currently own Doxa.

More info here: http://www.rruegger.ch/jenny_caribbean.htm

Well enough talk. Here are the pics.

Front

Side

An acrylic bezel insert

Solid case back, it has been refinished, the markings are there, barely visible

The marks are:

Automatic Incabloc Fullsteel Super Water Resistance
709-1
Swiss Made
Brevet 17531/68 18350/68
Brevet 5292/68
7093375

Here’s my collection of monobloc cases from Soviet Union, Switzerland and Japan.

Here’s how they stack up

Finally their beautiful case backs (real plain for the Soviet Zlatoust Diver)

Here’s how they wear.

The USSR Zlatoust diver, despite it’s size, it’s only 3ATM or an operating depth of 30m.

No there’s no typo there, given the technology in USSR in the 60s, this is probably the only diver watch before Vostok came out with a 20ATM dive watch around 1967.

As for wearing it ? I doubt anybody can put it off, unless you have 10″ wrist ? It’s 60mm without crown and 80mm from lug to lug and a 20mm crown.

It looks way too big.

My wrist is only 7″, after all, it’s meant to be worn outside a wet suit.

Seiko MarineMaster 300

I think the reason of the case back design is comfort. Despite, a high profile and a heavy case, the MM300 sits pretty well on my wrist and it’s very comfortable.

Read more about the Seiko MarineMaster 300 here

They are all great watches in their own way, I’m glad to have them in my collection.

Dive, Space, Aviation theme shots of my watches

jiehong — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:34:24 +0000

Here’s my collection by theme..

Dive

Space/Aviation

2nd Generation Boctok Amphibia

jiehong — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:28:26 +0000

The 2nd generation of Boctok Amphiabia, probably dated between 1970s – 1980s.

Model: Boctok Amphibian – 2nd Generation
Movement: Boctok 2209 manual wind
Jewels: 18
Functions: hours, minutes, seconds

It’s a Diver watch, up to 20ATM/200M with screwed in crown and the inscription below “Сделано в СССР” = “Made in USSR”.

A wrist shot

Сделано в СССР