Updates: - We now offer watch customization by Kent Parks, as well as custom stainless steel Olongapo watch bracelets.
Hello, and welcome to kevinsrussiantime.com. I am Kevin and the Chief
Collector here, but not all alone! With me in collecting and trading Russian
watches is Victor Goloubev. Victor has been a lawyer and run a retail watch
business in Moscow for twenty five years. He is the negotiating partner in
the team for all Russian Brands, he gets the models that we love the most
and can wear for a while and trade quickly. Above all of that he is a
wonderful friend. As there is no real internet based market for his business
in Russia, I have agreed to setup this website for him to help him bring his
watches to market, why would I do that? Well so I can also have an arena to
trade and sell my personal watches of which I have over three hundred!
Although this site is a hobby site for me, Victor can get you all of the new
models you wish as he is an authorized reseller for all Russian Models! On
the technical side of the site is "The Old Moustache" he is the webmaster
and Three Star General in charge of the technical war room here at Kevins
Russian time. He knows things about the web that he could tell you but then
he would have to kill you! Now that you know the team, here is a little
about our goal. This is the first re-write of the sites front page since we
began ops back in 2003. Back then our focus was solidly on Collecting
Russian Watches and on the toughness yet the price didn't break the budget
description of those Russian’s. As the years have passed and I have listened
to all of the watch guys on all of the watch sites, we have decided to make
a few changes in other words we hear you. Watch guys want a site where they
can buy and trade a used vintage watch, or a new Russian Rugged Military
Watch, maybe a high quality Japanese or American model. I began this site
committed to bringing you the finest in Russian mechanical watches by giving
Victor an avenue to sell his products, and keeping a vintage page for me to
sell my personal watches and use the proceeds to buy even more watches. That
has in no way changed we have simply decided that there are now some very
tough NON Russian Brands from America the best we feel is Bernhardt Watch
Company, now available here at kevinsrussiantime.com, Victor is an
authorized reseller of Bernhardt watches and also…. From Japan The Orient
Watch Company LTD. Once you look at these brands it will make sense to you
as to why we chose them.
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.
Well not all of us!
Back in the day a man’s 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 a manual wind and 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.
Having been blessed in my life, it is a pure pleasure to help new
entrepreneurs market their products and as such we are proud to offer two
service here where Neither Victor nor Kevin make any money from: Jaffy
Jurado makes the much sought after Olongapo bracelets and Kent Parks is
perhaps the most premier customizer of watch dials in the USA I know,
because I own an even dozen of them
J You may reach
Jaffy and Kent by clicking on the links below, thanks for following my hobby
site, and don’t be afraid to contact us if you see one of Victor’s new
models that you like, I will gladly contact him for you and translate your
request into Russian for him
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