Accurate cheap and nasty Vostok !!!

[xellos99]

Sad as I may be I enjoy regulating many of my watches and recording their accuracy to try and get the best out of them.

I have no special tools or machine, I simply try to nudge the leavers and record the results and then adjust again.

This is in no way a real test of accuracy, it is simply me looking at the watch

and then looking at an atomic updated clock and noting the difference I see.

After a couple of days of making adjustments I made an adjustment at 23:35 on 13/02/20 and noted it was minus 1 second and recorded it.

The next day I started to record every hour or two.

I am now at 34 hours passed and still I make it minus 1 second, although I think it is just about to creep into minus 2.

£28 Hand Winding watch imported from Russia. Has 2414A movement - 17 jewels - 19800 beat rate

Here were the recordings.

13/02/20
23:35 -1 SEC / OFF WRIST

14/02/20
07:35
08:35 -1 SEC / ON WRIST
09:45 -1 SEC
12:45 -1 SEC
14:00 -1 SEC
15:15 -1 SEC
16:00 -1 SEC
18:25 -1 SEC
19:30 -1 SEC
20:35 -1 SEC
21:25 -1 SEC
22:00 -1 SEC
23:35 -1 SEC / OFF WRIST

15/02/20
08:50 -1 SEC / ON WRIST
09:35 -1 SEC


Stock photo of the watch

[marius]

For a while (looong time ago)been playing with Russian watches...to be honest ....the ones that I bought(brand new) never for along with water ....always foggy :(
I gave up....
Enjoy yours anyway....great timekeeping

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[Bondurant]

Mine keeps fairly appalling time but I still like it. 25 seconds gained per day.

[xellos99]

Mine keeps fairly appalling time but I still like it. 25 seconds gained per day.

My one was + 14 a day before I started to fiddle.

I actually opened the case back with the same little flat head screw driver I use to nudge the regulator lol.

So simple, I would imagine many Russians regulate these themselves at home.

[Neil.C]

My one was + 14 a day before I started to fiddle.

I actually opened the case back with the same little flat head screw driver I use to nudge the regulator lol.

So simple, I would imagine many Russians regulate these themselves at home.

That was actually pretty good to start with.

The thing with regulating inexpensive movements is that they may be fine when laid flat but they are not adjusted in all positions which is the case with chronometer or more expensive movements.

There is a limit on what you can do with Vostoks in my experience.