Aviator, Sturmanskie, Buran : they all are men's wrist watch whose style and design were decisive in the history of Russian and Soviet men's wrist watch design.
The world-known history of Russian and Soviet aviation and rocket science contributed a lot in the style of the men's wrist watch Aviator, Sturmanskie, Buran.
All the models of men's wrist watch from Volmax are distinguished by a prosessional approach to design of box, dial and hands.
There's nothing accidental or excessive about the watch. It's an exlusive, inherent to jewelry, combination of ergonomics and artistism.
March 18, 1965 "Voskhod-2" spaceship was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Crew consisting of the captain P.I.Belyaev and co-pilot A.A.Leonov, opened the new chapter in space exploration. At 11:32 Belyaev opened the hatch of the ship. Alexei Leonov was in the space vacuum for 12 minutes and then returned to the airlock chamber. During ship landing due to failure of on-board navigation systems of Pavel Belyayev had to become the first in the world to have manually-orientated ship towards the sun and switched on the brake engine. On Belyayev's wrist there had been specially manufactured watch in memory of which "Open Space" series was created.
In 1957 special series of watches - "Arctic" - was developed to honour the participants of the first Soviet expedition to the "North Pole." Those legendary watches were reproduced in 2013 in the modern series of Sturmanskie.
“Sturmanskie” - a story of space exploration, captured in wristwatches. The first man in space - Yuri Gagarin - took with him “Sturmanskie” which proved its reliability in the conditions of zero gravity. Today, space travel - is more common, more frequent, therefore, the requirements for safety and comfort of all technical devices, from space shuttles to watches, increased a lot. Watches for the astronauts must have high resistance to aggressive environment - magnetic fields & vibrations. If electronics fails, only mechanics will work, so it must also a mechanical watch to keep time in space. But most of the time astronaut spends time on the ground, being trained in the conditions of zero gravity simulation – under the water. And so, from the space watch, we already expect water resistance and, as a “must have” - one of the most practical inventions in the history of watch making - automatic winding. Looking straight into the future, we have created «Mars», which, thanks to its unique features, will be invaluable in space journeys and on Earth. We’ve achieved all vitally important features in this Model: Antimagnetic, Anti-shock, water resistance and automatic. The movement is protected by anti-magnetic capsule and supported by three connectors inside the main case – idea inspired by peripheral docking unit invented for the “Soyuz” - “Apollo” flight. Due to transparent construction movement of this watch can be observed through the front glass and back cover, so the impression of levitation in zero gravity appears. Besides the functionality and technologies, we have created at the same time the emotional subject.
