Koliz Vostok company was established in August 2003 with the primary goal of creating wristwatches that combine modern design with specially modified Vostok movements, developed exclusively for Vostok Europe by Runim company. This collaboration continued for 11 years until 2014, when the import of movements from Russia was stopped.
April 2004
The first Vostok Europe watch collection was presented at the BaselWorld 2004 exhibition. All models in the collection were named after major technological and scientific achievements.
2005
From the very beginning, all VE watches were tested in real extreme conditions — in February 2005, Vostok Europe became the official timekeeper for the Murmansk-Vladivostok Race, the world’s longest winter car race.
2006-2007
We moved to the new office designed especially for the effective work of our watchmaking company.
The first shipments of watches were sent to Germany, Poland, Greece, and the USA in August 2004, and by 2007, VE’s distribution network expanded to 30 countries across North America, Europe and the Far East.
2008
Start of creating special edition watches for NATO forces, including Underwater Demolition Units, F-16 fighter and Apache helicopter pilots, submariners, rescue divers, and many others.
2009
A partnership with the Swiss company mb-microtec in 2009 laid the foundation for the new feature of VE watches — tritium tube illumination. This partnership led to the release of the Ekranoplan collection, the first VE collection with Tritium illumination (H3).
2010
The Anchar collection, introduced in 2010, marked the brand’s first diving watches with tritium tubes and a water resistance of 300 meters. These models were the first ones equipped with the Japanese movements from SII, initiating a long-term partnership with Japanese movement makers SII (later TMI), S.Epson, and Miyota.
2011
We created our brand slogan – WATCHES FOR GOING TO EXTREMES!
VE watches were chosen as the official timepieces for the Free-Diving World Championship, the Greek Football Federation and the Greek Institute of Marine Archaeology.
VE developed a unique technology of vertically mounted reflectors tritium tubes — this construction provides complete visibility of the whole tritium illumination on the watch dial, which is otherwise unachievable using traditional flat horizontal tube positioning on the dial.
2012
In January 2012, the VE Anchar model was first field-tested during the Dakar Rally.
Worn by Lithuanian racer Gintautas Igaris it successfully passed all challenges. The rally took place over two weeks in the ruthless South American terrain.
In July 2012, the Tritium line of N1 Rocket collection was tested during the expedition into World’s 2nd Deepest cave, Krubera-Voronia (2,199 m / 7,215 ft depth).
The Lithuanian-Ukrainian expedition, which descended to a depth of 2 kilometers, lasted nearly two weeks.
April 12th, 2013
Lunokhod model was launched into the stratosphere — reaching an altitude of 16,680 meters, twice the height of Mount Everest!
The watch endured temperature of -44°C, a vacuum of 88mB, and radiation levels of 1200 mkR/h, without issue.
2014
Vostok Europe produced the world’s first watches with the NE88 column-wheel automatic chronograph movement from SII (Japan). These watches, the first automatic chronographs in VE’s history, were dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the brand’s debut on the international market.
2015
VE started experiments with new materials for its watch cases, successfully introducing titanium and bronze models.
2016
VE trailblazes the use of S.Epson’s high-end quartz multifunctional YM series movements. The YM series combines up to five sets of timekeeping functions in a single movement module. VE became the first brand to combine YM series movements with Swiss tritium tubes illumination technology.
2018
The first ladies’ collection “Undinė” was launched. It blends elegance with a resilient construction suitable for deep diving up to 200 meters.
2020
In partnership with the “Association of Veterans of the US Submarine Service,” VE released the “SSN571 Nuclear Submarine” collection, dedicated to the world’s first nuclear submarine, the SSN571 Nautilus.
2023
The company celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023 with the most unique model that had a full meteorite dial, limited to 200 pieces. The space origin of the dial’s material was verified by the Lithuanian Center for Physical Sciences and Technologies.
2024
Solar-powered movements from S. Epson were first time used in the Expedition North Pole and Expedition South Pole collections.
The branding is updated to emphasize VE’s DNA of creating watches for going to extremes!
We are moving forward putting our knowledge and soul into making outstanding wristwatches.
More is coming!
