Re: Vostok Europe Automatic Arkitka

There now appears to be a quality and price differential between :

Vostok (made in Russia or Belarus and everybody bought one--generally
with a brass case showing through, a plexiglas crystal, and Cyrillic
KGB or somesuch embossed on the dial) I paid $39.95 proto-glasnost for
mine. They are indestructible, more's the pity, they're so ugly.

And (allegedly)

Vostok Europe (said to be much better quality and quality control, made
in the Baltic somewhere--Latvia? or Estonia?--with good (reputedly)
movements, and nicely designed and executed dials).

Which is what my question is all about--is the improvement really there
in the Vostok Europe,specifically in the inordinately beautiful (in my
eyes, anyway) Arctika. Said Arctika goes for about $170 to $189 in the
USA, and I never wear non-functional bracelets. People would talk.
And I don't want to lay out that kind of money for something that's
going to go ugly or non-functional early on.

Thanks much.

Salmonella Scripsit

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