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Your RR watch is probably as close as it can get to your friend's RR clock. The dial is indeed very similar, and it's the perfect, most clock-like case. Beautiful black hands (especially the seconds hand) and I really like your choice of the strap as well matching perfectly with the bezel. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

@VWatchie; you told me in a PM so passionate about the beauty of the Radio-Room dial you own. A friend of mine is a (retired) Radio-operator and I used to spent many hours talking to him in his Radio-room. Here is a picture of one of the radio-rooms he used to work in: I have fond memories of those times and tried already a few times to create a watch to commemorate these pleasant memories. The very first Vostok I bought had the white Vostok RR-dial but that dial didn't work for me. I tried the black Vostok RR-dial, but that one didn't work either. Inspired by VWatchies CCCP Radio-Room dial and the funky hands on his Yuri Gagarin watch (3rd from the top) I did my last attempt with the "silver/Bronse" colored Vostok RR-dial ..... finally I may be onto something which could work for me, and ........ it pretty much matches the clock in the room my friend used to work in !! Sometimes things have to "mature" to come to full fruition. Thank you Ed for the pleasant hours we had together ! Thank you VWatchie for inspiring me again Looking forward seeing your new vintage RR-watch out of Moscow, should be in by now !?

So my plan now is to get another complete (new) movement to get the watch running (about $300 new on eBay) and then dedicate this one to see what Rolex movement parts fit, and don't fit, into the "fake". We know the barrel assembly doesn't fit directly. But, perhaps changing the lower jewel it will. Like I have time for this, but it will be a good and useful project once I finally get around to it.

no, I have a "cronometer intergral" looks similar, pendant watch, swiss made. see it in the gallery. vin

Update: it was running well on the bench. Ran overnight non stop with one wind (I just would the mainspring from the ratchet wheel screw, so it may have had a bit more in it). So, I decided to case it up. There are some screwy things going on in the watch. I guess the case is set for a 2824 clone or something. The stem height is such that with the 3135, they add a “shim” under the dial. That drops the date wheel away from the dial, which looks odd. But that’s minor. Once cases up, it decided to stop running. It seemed like the balance stop (for hacking) might be hanging up. A tap of the crown (once screwed down) seemed to get it running. For a while anyway. Looking a bit deeper the balance wheel seems to have a lot of end shake and just didn’t seem smooth and nice to me. So I pulled the upper pivot/endstone/lyre spring off... it then runs like a bmw on five cylinders, but it runs. Ok let’s tighten this up. Cleaned the parts and then lost the upper pivot reinstalling it.... AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! so, it’s still dead on the bench. Im going to look in my junk box of assorted dead movements and see if I can find either a pivot or a complete end shock assembly that fits. I still have to figure out how to adjust end shake on this crazy movement...