Vostok's Exclusive Interview for WUS Russian Watches forum

How is the new line of Amfibia watches selling compared to the classic designs?
Have they taken steps to stop the blue-faced watches fading?
Do they have any plans for more classic reissues like the 1967?












And can I have a free watch? :-d

A Russian news site, focused on army and weapons, announced that the Russian soldiers and officers could receive in 2010-2011 wrist watches as part of their equipment. The article says that four types of watches are being designed - mechanical with hand winding for sergeants, mechanical with automatic winding for officers, a 100 m. water-proof watch for the navy and a chronograph for the senior officers. Maktime and Vostok will be commissioned to make them, says the article, and Maktime director confirmed the news, adding that the chronograph will be with automatic winding. link here (http://www.arms-expo.ru/site.xp/052053124054052048050.html). Unfortunately the photos are from other watches, not the announced ones. There is a short description of what the new watches are expected to be, e.g. to have anti-glare coating, if I understood well.
Well, if Vostok people are working right now on a new Zakaz, this could be a great news. In any case, if it is not too late to ask more questions, it might be interesting to know if a new Zakaz is being prepared, how it will look like, and will it be available to humble collectors.
But there is no date put on the article, so it might be an old news, a discarded project.

As right now I cannot work on the accurate translation, please, help me. This is the original reply we got in January and I have permission to post it as is. Since it is not very informative, we decided not to post it immediately and initiated the interview. I hope we will get more detailed answers soon. I would not bother them with additional questions now. Let's get the answers to the earlier questions first.

08.01.2010

Q: Виталий, упорно ходят слухи и том, что Восток в трудном финансовом положении. Это правда?

A: 1) Что касается ситуации на заводе. В связи с тем, что прежний руководитель завода г-н Цивилин уже как два года на пенсии, но продолжал общее руководство, им было принято решение о уходе с данного поста. В настоящее время он остался на должности советника. Руководителем завода был избран его прежний заместитель по одному из направлений деятельности завода - это господин Пухов. Что касается фин. положения завода, конечно оно не идеально, тем более что очень много неплатежей со стороны российских потребителей продукции.


The question is numbered 1) because the second one was about the watches offered in the popular here ebay shop. I think I will post it in the corresponding thread, though that answer was not very informative either.