A big hello from Italy!
 

Hello to the entire forum! I'm Enzo, mostly known as VPN on WUS.

I'm from Italy, and I collect vintage timepieces of various kinds: analog, digital, mechanical, automatic, quartz and electromechanicals. But one of the reasons that led me to register here is my growing interest for vintage Soviet timepieces.

At the moment, I have a small collection of Soviet watches, such as a Vostok Amphibia Tonneau Antimagnetic, a Chaika 3050 Kvarzevi Rezonator (which needs a repair, since the trimmer partially came off the circuit board after I had an accident with my bicycle), an Elektronika-1 and a ZIM 3049, my latest acquisition, which I already have introduced here, in the Elektronika forum.

What I hope most is to learn new things about the Soviet-era watchmaking and maybe to increase the collection with uncommon pieces, and maybe, to find some parts that would come in handy to restore some of my watches (currently I am looking for a logo panel for my ZIM 3049, if you have a broken ZIM 3049/Elektronika B6-02 with a good looking logo panel -the metallic panel with the ZIM or the Elektronika logo-, please let me know. I would be very grateful!).

Thank you very much for welcoming me! :)

VPN/Meisteranker

Please, pardon me for my clunky Russian. I use a translator to translate what I write from English.

Few weeks ago I bought the Raketa green TV timepiece - I never saw it before. It's beautiful wristwatch:
http://forum.watch.ru/showthread.php?t=173890

hey there! Welcome to the forum :)

What a lovely Raketa, Yurikim! It's also in great conditions for its age. An amazing catch. :cool:

Thank you Sorcer! I remember you on WUS! ;)

Yes, I usually comment in Russian sub-forum only but occasionally go to other forums :)

Grazie! Spero che la traduzione automatica dal russo in italiano dello stesso divertente, piace dall'inglese in russo! :)

Some another ones of my USSR collection:

http://yurikim.ru/watch/barrel-08.jpg
http://yurikim.ru/watch/copernik-04.jpg
http://yurikim.ru/watch/luchb-10.jpg
http://yurikim.ru/watch/polet-18.jpg
http://yurikim.ru/watch/poletw-01.jpg
http://yurikim.ru/watch/barrel-04.jpg

Prego! ;) Il risultato è più o meno simile, ma quando traduco dall'inglese riesco un pò a ridurre gli errori di traduzione. :p

You're welcome! ;) More or less the result is similar, although when I translate from English to Russian I manage to reduce a bit the translation mistakes. :p

You've got many great models, Yuri! And they are in outstanding conditions, they look like if they are new. Unfortunately it's not easy to find vintage Soviet watches in great conditions like yours on Ebay, since together with Etsy, is the only site where I look for Soviet watches.

But here things are different, as I have the chance to get some interesting and unique watches in future. :)

I'm currently working on the photo album, to post here my entire collection, and to update it everytime I add a new piece.

Double post, sorry!

Welcome to the forum:)
Its great that you, living in Italy, are interested in Soviet wristwatch!
I wish you good luck in further search))
And if you really are interested, I can show a few watches of my Soviet collection;)