This week marked 50 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space and orbit the earth. To celebrate the anniversary of the first human in space a cool watch has ...

The Slava factory (formerly the Second Moscow Watch Factory) is another watchmaker with a complicated past. In the 2000s, it belonged to a bank before being ultimately auctioned off.

With pseudonyms like The Broker, The Astronaut and The Vampire, this global cabal of watch collectors specialize in Soviet timepieces dating back to the days of Stalin.