#soviet watch

[copperbadge]

So, turns out Mum saved out one Christmas gift to give to me the day I fly home: my grandfather's wristwatch.

Yep, definitely a Watch Guy now.

The band is new, obviously (the old band was badly damaged), but the watch itself is a Soviet-made Luch from the 70s. My grandfather worked in the US aerospace industry and Mum says he always said this was a gift from a colleague who was a Soviet "expat", which in that time and place probably meant someone who had fled the USSR. Mum didn't know much about what my grandfather did for a living or why he was given it -- we didn't even know where it was until she dug around a little after I expressed interest in it when she gave me a Luch from the 90s. This being the case, I'm going to pretend it was a gift from a defecting space-program scientist he helped get out of Russia. It's not actually a non-zero chance Granddad was a spy.

You can see the crystal is a little scuffed and the face is slightly worn, but it runs fine when you wind it and it looks sexy as hell. Those nylon straps with the single stripe are popular as replacement bands and very comfortable (plus you can swap them out easily) so I'm beyond thrilled to have a new-old heirloom for my collection.

[ID: a photo of my wrist, showing a watch with a thick nylon band in blue and cream. The watch has a gold colored bezel, with gold hatching on a black ring to represent numbers around a gold center, and brighter gold hour and minute hands. There is a very faint logo engraving near the top of the face.]

[angryducktimemachine]

A brotherly visit.

[ID: a digital drawing of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. Mycroft is sitting in an armchair with a large cat asleep in his lap. Sherlock is pacing in circles around him, talking. /end ID]

[nastyalover123]

My dear friend got me into the 1980s Soviet Sherlock and so now I'm here to spread the word, enjoy

[buckingham-ashtray]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980), S02E03, The Tiger Hunt

Your violin cradled under his chin and the bow held gingerly in his fingertips,

He could not play,

But the strings keened as the instrument kissed his cheek for you.

[ourlittlesister2015]

Getting to Know the Big Wide World [Познавая белый свет] (1978), dir. Kira Muratova

[spiritcc]

So does the general russian/soviet sherlock holmes segment not have any meta posts because nobody is bothering with it or because there is nothing to discuss at all

[hoshingee]

nikolai rostov im your biggest fan

[vampyrholmes]

holmes and watson in adaptations that are set in any era other than modern 21st century could breathe in a certain way and i’d be like “that’s a metaphor for being queer”

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

God the Brigadier saying 'back in the Cold War days' in 1975 is SUCH interesting social commentary now we're 50 years hence

[copperbadge]

Got a cool semi-vintage watch from Mum and Dad as a birthday gift -- the band is obviously not original, but the watch itself is a Soviet-made mechanical from the early 90s (we think). The real gift is that we don't have much info on the watch so I get to research it. :D

Apparently my grandfather owned a Luch watch he got from a colleague he worked with in the 60s or 70s (he worked in aerospace for the US and knew a few expats, so Mum was told) and valued it very highly. She doesn't know what happened to his so she got me one similar, if of a later make.

[ID: my wrist with a watch on it with a modern nylon band; the watch face is cream with wide black numbers. It has slim black hour and minute but no seconds hand. Text below the 12 reads Luch and text under the 6 reads "Made in Belarus". There is a winding fob on the right.]

[jazzandpizazz]

Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes!!

[oneinathousand]

The best design interpretation of Snow White I’ve ever seen is from an 80’s Hungarian parody movie called Hófehér where she’s portrayed as a muscular albino:

[sim0nww]

Pierrot stim board

from the movie 'The adventures of Buratino' [1975]

[pitsapitsa]

It’s crazy that the first Dostoevsky book I ever read from start to finish turned out to be his last

I have two more of his books as well, "Idiot" and "Demons" and I read only 10 pages from each one like 1-2 years ago and carried on with TBK.

But now I don't have these two with me so I'm planning to immerse myself in either "White nights" or the movie adaptation of Karamazovs.