Buran is no longer a Russian owned company, it was sold by Volmax to the Swiss a while ago. So there will be no more Buran watches at all with Russian movements! Actually there are no more 3133 or it's variants (31681, 31682, etc) in production at all anymore, get them while they are still cheap!
Buran 24H Regulator Chronograph - 31682 movement
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Hello,
I purchased this on ebay:
I'm familiar with, and had been hunting, this watch with the 31681 movement.. and thought that it had gone out of production. The version I'd seen with the 31681 movement had yellow hands (more info in this thread: https://www.watchuseek.com/f5/buran...h-%96-mission-impossible-aww-11-a-846833.html ).
Anyway, while the watch didn't ship to me with a box, it did ship with a Poljot manual/warranty with movement instructions, and a filled out page that had the purchase date as march of this year.
Anyone know if they're producing this watch again? And if there's a reason for the change in movement? (maybe they just had spares). The watch was fairly cheap for this model (at least from what I'd seen for sale used previously).. and the seller apparently has more of them.
And.. on the movement, apparently the difference between the 31681 and 31682 is that the 31682 was supposed to have a day/night disk? I'd guess that is a pretty minor thing that should be running on a 24 hour cycle anyway... but, anything I should be aware of with that?
Thanks,
Marshall
I purchased this on ebay:
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I'm familiar with, and had been hunting, this watch with the 31681 movement.. and thought that it had gone out of production. The version I'd seen with the 31681 movement had yellow hands (more info in this thread: https://www.watchuseek.com/f5/buran...h-%96-mission-impossible-aww-11-a-846833.html ).
Anyway, while the watch didn't ship to me with a box, it did ship with a Poljot manual/warranty with movement instructions, and a filled out page that had the purchase date as march of this year.
Anyone know if they're producing this watch again? And if there's a reason for the change in movement? (maybe they just had spares). The watch was fairly cheap for this model (at least from what I'd seen for sale used previously).. and the seller apparently has more of them.
And.. on the movement, apparently the difference between the 31681 and 31682 is that the 31682 was supposed to have a day/night disk? I'd guess that is a pretty minor thing that should be running on a 24 hour cycle anyway... but, anything I should be aware of with that?
Thanks,
Marshall
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These pieces would most likely have been assembled recently in Moscow, and then acquired and sold by, the RUSCAMERA eBay store.
The case is a regular Poljot case from the early-2000s, and the dial design, created by a former(?) WUS forum member, was stolen by Volmax. I imagine the case design was copied by Poljot at some point just after the turn-of-the-century, because they appear in the 2002 catalogue as part of the "Russian Chronograph" series.
As you noted, the model number is incorrect because for all intents and purposes it's a cal. 31681 without the day/night disk. This recent thread illustrated where the disk would normally be attached to the 24hr wheel: https://www.watchuseek.com/f10/advice-31681-24-hour-subdial-hands-misaligned-879572-2.html
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The case is a regular Poljot case from the early-2000s, and the dial design, created by a former(?) WUS forum member, was stolen by Volmax. I imagine the case design was copied by Poljot at some point just after the turn-of-the-century, because they appear in the 2002 catalogue as part of the "Russian Chronograph" series.
As you noted, the model number is incorrect because for all intents and purposes it's a cal. 31681 without the day/night disk. This recent thread illustrated where the disk would normally be attached to the 24hr wheel: https://www.watchuseek.com/f10/advice-31681-24-hour-subdial-hands-misaligned-879572-2.html
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