Hello and welcome to www.Kevinsrussiantime.com. I'm Kevin and this is my site. I am committed to bringing you the finest in Russian mechanical watches. Many of my friends and family have asked me why, I hope I can give you the answer and make you a convert to Russian watches.

There was a time in our history where the wristwatch was an integral part of our everyday life as men. The wristwatch helped us as a tool to ensure our timeliness. However these same pieces of equipment were useless without the input daily of its wearer. We had to wind the watch at regular intervals in our life thus making the watch a part of us. These timepieces now have been replaced by P.D.A's and cell phones with clocks on the cover that are digital. We as men have lost the inverse relationship to our timepieces.

Back in the day a mans wristwatch was a literal extension of himself from the utilitarian dial of the soldiers wristwatch to the CEO's flashier more noticeable watch, they were a part of us, they were a tool of our day. Without our watch we felt naked, well for some that feeling is still alive and well.

Today the mechanical wristwatch has become an autowinder that as long as our wrists are in movement the watch is wound as a small off balance rotor is rotated over the winding mechanism and the watch is wound. Of course there are also Quartz watches that are battery powered, electrifying a small piece of quartz causing it to vibrate and power the watch. These watches became very inexpensive and quickly overtook the mechanical market for ease of manufacture and fast track to market. Although a lot of the high end mechanical movements survived like Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Omega. These brands were generally above the means of the average person. In the early to mid seventies American makers came up with digital watches that gave a digital readout of the time. These computerized watches were a fad and soon the only mainstream watches are a combination of analog digital. Russian manufacturers have long made mechanical movements treating each one as a machine that they care for.

During the time of Communist rule in Russia the Soviet Union was barred from world trade largely due to their lack of a currency to float on the world market. However they were able to provide a swapping environment with the Swiss and they sent many of their top manufacturers to Switzerland to learn the art of watch making, they brought the knowledge tools and equipment back to Russia and began to turn out some of the most cost efficient mechanical movements in the world. With the fall of communism in russsia, there was a vacuum effect with Russian manufacturers free to market their goods world wide and no way to bring them to market...Until now!

I received my first Boctok at the age of 18 I was a private first class in the US Army, and while in training in the Russian language I received a Russian Boctok as a gift. It was awesome and although it was liberated from my foot locker by a person who needed it more than I, I never forgot it and I now have the exact model in my collection again. I am happy to bring you the best brands in Russia Boctok, Poljot, Slava, Raketa, and Orion all of them well priced all of them shipped direct to you in packaging from the Russian Federation, and all of them at a very very reasonable cost. If you don't see what you're looking for ask me I can usually get anything you need and I am happy to help.