Vintage RAKETA watch from the USSR 1960s

The watch has been fully serviced, cleaned and oiled by a professional watch maker. 

This watch is in fully working order.

The brand Raketa (meaning “space rocket” in Russian) was created in 1961 in tribute to mankind's first ever spaceflight 

by Yuri Gagarin. Since then, the Raketa Watch Factory engineered watches that were used by Soviet cosmonauts and watches 

that celebrate the cosmos.

On 13 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin made the first manned flight in outer space on the rocket, Vostok 1. In honour of this 

achievement, the Petrodvorets Watch Factory named its watches "Rocket"; Raketa in Russian.

The Petrodvorets Watch Factory Raketa, is one of only five watch brands in the world producing their movements in-house 

from start to finish, including hairsprings and escapements.

Most watch brands globally do not produce their own hairsprings, they generally order them from Nivarox, a subsidiary of 

Swatch Group. This enables the Russian military industry to be independent from western suppliers, especially for 

producing hairsprings needed in the military aviation industry.

Mechanical movement, manual winding.

Diameter of watch: 34.5 mm

Diameter of watch with crown: 36 mm

Diameter of dial: 30 mm

Thickness: 9 mm

Band size: 18 mm

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