The wristwatch that I bought for $14 at CVS last year finally shat the bed (as they say here in Mass). I checked out the Timex watch that I’ve bought at K-Mart and K-Mart like stores for the past 15 years, and they’ve gone up in price. The thing that I liked most about those watches was that they were wicked cheap (about $14), but suddenly they’re $30 or more. So… I’ve been obsessing about watches, since I don’t really have any clocks in my house and my watch is my lifeline to reality.

I’ve become obsessed with Russian military watches. Maybe it’s because I’m a Child of the 80s, and I came of age in a time when Soviet military stuff was totally rad with the artfag set. I had lots of Soviet-era pins and a big Soviet Union flag hanging in my room back in the day. I have always loved the efficient-yet-elegant look of military stuff, and in foreign countries it doesn’t have the baggage of US military stuff, although that’s cool too. Plus, Russian just *looks* cool as a language!

The problem is, the watches are pretty expensive for my budget. I mean, I’m used to spending, well, $14 on a watch that’s more or less disposable after it dies in a couple of years. Do I want to spent like $60 on a watch I’ll have for the rest of my life? Prrobably not at least until I get my tax refund back…

Here are some cool ones:

I *heart* submarines!!!

This “Watch are created in honour of 50 years the terminations of the WWII.”

This one has the space dogs Belka and Strelka!

This one’s just cool with the rocketship. It doesn’t look very durable, though.

…unlike this freaking SWEET KGB one that’s waterproof to 670 feet.

I know that there are like a zillion Russians out there selling Soviet-era stuff, some of it really from then and some of it new and made to look like stuff back then to sell to naive Americans like me… this is probably why I will never actually buy a real watch, and instead get so sick of not knowing what time it is that I break down and buy the Dalek watch at Newbury Comics (even though it’s digital).

Until then, I’ll use the digital Yoda watch that the Biatch gave me from Burger King. I am too retarded to be able to read a digital watch, though. I have to look at the numbers and then picture a dial with hands in my head in order to process what the numbers mean. Yeah. My brain is kind of wacky.