Monday, August 08, 2005

My Russian Watch is Broken

About a year and a half ago, I purchased a Russian Submariner's watch over the internet. Sometime after I started wearing it I showed it to Vika a programmer originally from Russia who works for the same company as I do. She had two comments; the first was "You bought Russian watch?", with a look on her face of disbelief, followed by "Don't get it wet". I also found out that what was advertised as a self-winding watch meant you wind it yourself (Must have been a translation problem).

Hey, I thought it looked cool anyway and I needed a watch at the time. Live and learn, the watch's winding stem fell off two months ago. I've changed country and service branch since, my new watch is a Swiss Army.

Therefore, when I saw this headline "Navy team given Russian wristwatches for sub rescue" (Hat tip: TheSubReport) My first thought was, I hope they get something of better quality, followed by Vika's recommendation "Don't get it wet" which I'm thinking could also apply to the current state of the Russian Navy.

2 comments:

bothenook said...

funny. got one just like it. may have to scan it, just for the laugh. the thing does have kind of a cool back on it.

Anonymous said...

I have a Russian Submariner watch I bought in Berlin in 1992 for about $26. Looks a lot
like the one in the photo. Still runs good and is definifely waterproof. It's a treasured souvenir.