This is a Custom Made Vostok Amphibia watch with the KGB Dial. I decided on the dial, case, bezel, size and bracelet. Free shipping to USA. No returns. No box.
 
Why does the Vostok Amphibia exist ?
 
Cold War Politics
 
In 1967, Mikhail Novikov and Vera Belov, designers at the Chistopol watch factory, had a challenging task: to design and produce a new dive watch reliable to 200 meters and the associated changes of pressure and temperature.
 
The design team at Vostok decided on the name "Amphibia" as it evoked a watch equally at home underwater and on land. Coming up with the name was the easy part. Producing a watch capable of meeting the needs of the Soviet defense department was the real challenge.
 
Of course Switzerland was capable of producing watches with such specifications, but according to Novikov (here, as paraphrased by Google translate), “many [Swiss] designs we could not repeat, because our equipment can not provide the necessary accuracy.” If the quality of the machines available in Russia meant that copying the techniques of the Swiss were out of the question, then Novikov and Belov would have to approach the problem differently altogether.
 
The reality is that Communism Russia didn't want to concede that a Capitalist Country can do better watches. Capitalist divers can have Omega Sea Masters but communist divers cannot because that stains the Revolution. That mentality sparked Soviet ingenuity . The design of the Amphibia is different (in a way similar to EPSA’s compressor system), in that the water resistance of the watch is improved as the pressure around it increases.
 
This is an inexpensive watch, not a cheap watch by any means.