@Hammy60 of the watches IW sell, are the Vostok's the best in terms of quality? To my untrained eyes they certainly look the best.
Okay now this is a hard one to answer as the best in quality, on the whole though, Vostok Europe is way ahead of most of IW's offering in build quality, look/size may not be to everyone's taste but for build quality they are very good, not luxury, but very good.
As a brand, i rate Vostok Europe way above every other brand on IW at the moment, they are of course the only true watchmaking brand on IW, design and assemble themselves, they are also an open book, you know where the watches are made and by whom, they have no secrets, the rest are brands that love secrets, that have their watches designed and made for them by someone else, they devulge very little info on the watch specs, more often than not we won't have a clue who the actual watchmaker is or where they are made.
For the type of watch VE do, they are a good quality rugged solid no nonsense type of watch with decent quality workhorse movements (Seiko/Citizen), big build to suit those that have a more outdoorsy type of lifestyle, definately not a dress watch although the Gaz 14 range is more dressy but for me it's still big at 43mm for a dress watch, because of the height VE watches don't slip under shirt cuffs easily. If you like the style, big watches, then buy them, nothing really negative to say against them (apart from using Kev and IW), but would suggest looking about for best price and not buying from IW, like a lot of stuff on IW can be found cheaper eslewhere.
Now here is where it gets hard, the Duchump Audace Automatic is actually a very good quality watch, in reality it's the 'Roamer Primeline Daydate' with Duchump branding, in some ways actually better than the Vostok Europe watches, being more dress style watch which will appeal to more people, it has a sleeker more refined case finishing and better quality movement (Sellita SW240 copy of the ETA 2834), we know where and by whom that watch is made, Watchmakers CH in Mendrisio. On the other hand while that watch might be good quality, the brand itself ain't, a bunch of shysters that i wouldn't touch with a barge pole, and that watch is a copy of a design that is made by quite a few good respectable honest watch brands out there so plenty of alternatives to buy instead.
Below that in the quality stakes would probably be some of the other Duchumps then some of the Solar Time watches.
The rest would be a meh to utter crap.
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