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WUS Project Interest Poll

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Please vote for each project you would potentially like to participate in; you may choose more than one answer. Your participation here is critical to determine if any of these feasible ideas have enough support to receive approval from the forum administration to move forward. You cannot view the poll while using Tapatalk.

Vostok Poljot "Dolphin" Amphibian

  • Oversized black/PVD bezel
  • Green-colored SuperLuminova
  • 710 or 150 case
  • 200 units
  • Around $200 USD or less
  • Delivery in 1 year+

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Vostok Neptune Amphibian

  • Dial made of mother of pearl
  • 2432 day/night indicator movement likely
  • Wider "universal" bezel
  • Solid integrated bracelet
  • Lug adapters possible
  • 200 units
  • Around $200 USD
  • Delivery in 1 year+

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Luch GAZ-13 "Chaika"

  • Display back likely
  • Chrome or durable ZrN pale-gold plated brass case
  • Steel case and sapphire glass possible with support
  • ~37mm case
  • 30+ units
  • $89 USD minimum
  • Delivery in 2 weeks+

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#57 ·
Using the last several project polls as guidance we know there are around 100 active voters on this subforum. After maybe another week we could safely estimate how many have abstained, but so far about a quarter of people have not voted and/or are not interested. Perhaps such an option to explicitly state "no" would be better, but I'm more interested in those who are in, not those who are out.

For the Vostok votes right now it's still quite evenly divided with Poljot even overtaking Neptune's previous small lead. Not only that I can now calculate 65% of the Vostok voters are for one of the two projects and not the other. With either Vostok project requiring 200 people we'd need as much consensus as possible. The successful Slava had a 33% lead over the Poljot in 2016, by comparison, while last year's Elbrus versus Poljot had a mere 7% difference and then only mustered 150 participants with lots of coaxing. Even if we would like to try the administrators surely don't so I have to admit I don't think it's going to happen for now and will personally be taking a step back in the meantime.

Looking at the Luch separately, it has passed the minimum necessary amount of people and would surely gain more if it moves forward. I encourage our Luch informant PanKorup to discuss with Chascomm, of course not forgetting the Elektronika proposal is also nearby.
 
#62 · (Edited)
For anyone interested in the GAZ-13 "Chaika" limo, I recommend reading its comprehensive genesis by Vadim Aleshin. Here's "the works" on this Rare Bird, and worthy of a Benedictine scholar. Only in Russian, sorry:

https://vakin.livejournal.com/1457049.html

Among many facts, rare pics, trivia (and gossip :-! ) you may learn where its "seagull wings" emblematic V symbol comes from, and the "inspiration" source of the instruments.
 
#63 · (Edited)
Thank you Comrade for this valuable link!
I've been looking at the pics because my very basic russian does not allow me to understand almost anything. But it surprised me that one of the pics of the Chaika in an exhibition could be in Spain (one of the colour photos), all the signs are in spanish (behind can be read in the building's façade "de edu" wich could be "de educación" (education) and "al 15 de Dic-= abierto" "to 15th dec.=open".
The people behind don't look to be cuban.
I can't precise where that building is, as the picture in centered in the Chaika's beauty, but then, this particular example could have made its way to Spain. The exhibition looks quite like a motor show. At that time, the only spanish city hosting ointernational motor shows was Barcelona.

So thanks again for the link and the pics!
Best regards
 
#66 · (Edited)
I can't precise where that building is, as the picture in centered in the Chaika's beauty, but then, this particular example could have made its way to Spain. The exhibition looks quite like a motor show. At that time, the only spanish city hosting ointernational motor shows was Barcelona.
Google translation of the paragraph introducing that picture:

"Of course, the production of GAZ-13 was initially small-scale and was timed to a significant event - the 21st Congress of the CPSU Central Committee, famous for proclaiming the final victory of socialism in the USSR and the course towards communism by the 1980s. As for Chaika, she received a prestigious international award, a Grand Prix, at the World Industrial Exhibition EXPO-58 in Brussels a year earlier in pre-production."


If this is correct, what is seen in the background could be the Spanish pavillion. ;-)
 
#78 ·
Just placed my vote for The Dolphin.

We just did a diver watch, but I am open for another - the reason being... although we start now, with the design issues, prototype issues, ordering issues, factory queuing issues... we can only hope that it will be delivered by 2020 (and it's more than a year away).

Let's do this. Woohoo...
 
#79 ·
Just placed my vote for The Dolphin.

We just did a diver watch, but I am open for another - the reason being... although we start now, with the design issues, prototype issues, ordering issues, factory queuing issues... we can only hope that it will be delivered by 2020 (and it's more than a year away).

Let's do this. Woohoo...
 
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