AboutTime Summer 2017 Issue #15 | Page 62

VOSTOK-EUROPE FOR GOING F ollowing a successful 11th year presenting at Baselworld, TO EXTREMES Both of those lines have seen significant changes in the past few Vostok-Europe of Lithuania has a several exciting things in months, with more to come this year. There will be a new multi-function store for 2017. line of the Lunokhod 2 and the Caspian Sea Monster is getting a com- “We have been revamping our entire catalog over the past months,” says Igor Zubovskij, the company’s managing director. “By plete makeover. Another bit of exciting news for VE this year is that it will be the the end of 2017 we will have developed roughly fifty new models over first non-Seiko brand to use the new Seiko YN85 power reserve move- a twenty-four month period.” ment. This will power the new GAZ Limo line coming out this fall. The brand, whose slogan is “For Going to Extremes”, builds Vostok-Europe has become sort of a testing ground for Seiko mostly dive and sport watches. Every watch comes with a history and Epson. It was the first brand outside SII to use the NE88 column-wheel a story, such as the Lunokhod II, named for a Soviet lunar rover, or the chronograph and the first to use the new multi-function YM86 move- Caspian Sea Monster, named for the crazy looking ground effect plane. ments, which will be in the new Lunokhod 2 models. 62 | AboutTime Magazine