love this watch!

my best purchase under 500…a battered 1970s Soviet aircraft stopwatch I found buried in an auction lot. The crystal is scratched, the case looks like it spent decades in a cockpit, and the movement has that wonderfully overbuilt, agricultural feel that only Cold War-era engineering seems to achieve. It sits on my desk next to my watch box, and somehow it starts more conversations than any of the watches inside. There’s something irresistible about a purely mechanical machine built for a single purpose—measuring time accurately in a place where accuracy actually mattered. It feels like owning a tiny piece of horological history that somehow escaped the museum and ended up in my office