Vitebsk Owner Review : Admirable, conceptual and historical

Boris Grebenshikov, City of Gold soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKzDD-SJBU The distinctive feature of this 1990s watch is that it is entirely gold-plated. Not only the dial and hands, but also the bezel and case. Only the caseback is made of steel, a screw-down caseback. It has been worn relatively little, given that it was given as a gift somewhere in Ukraine or Belarus on July 17, 1999, and it is a bit conspicuous to be worn if you didn't choose it yourself. The numerals are interesting because they seem to escape from the center in the direction of the centrifugal force, as on the bezel, except for the 6, of course, because that would be confusing, since an inverted 6 is a 9. The movement is marked with a double pennant, which is the logo of the Vympel brand from the Belarusian city of Vitebsk. The watch evokes an unattainable and desirable ideal that hovered over the late 1990s. Hence the famous song, almost a prayer, by Boris Borisovitch, set to this melody, falsely said to be from the Middle Ages, about an ideal and fabulous world of the transparent city of gold. It is not a simple watch; it is a prayer, a call for peace, beauty, and love. Adjective: ideal, metaphysical, dreamlike, historical