It would be great find for any collector
ORIGINAL! Very good condition! Please see the photos for the assessment of watches. Runs well and keeps time accurately. Really watches look much better than in the photo.
DEFECTS: small traces of use
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USSR
MANUFACTURER: Petrodworez Watch Factory (PChZ, Raketa, Russian: Петродворцовый часовой завод)
OVERALL CONDITION (10-point scale): 8
CASE
Condition (10-point scale): 8
Inscriptions on the back cover: serial number
GLASS
Material: acrylic
Condition (10-point scale): 9
DIAL
Condition (10-point scale): 8
Inscriptions on the dial (translated into English): Raketa, made in USSR
MOVEMENT
Mechanical: hand-winding
Raketa 2609.NP movement - is a high accuracy class movement produced in accordance with GOST 10733-73.
Caliber Raketa 2609.NP
http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&Raketa_2609_H
Features
manual wind
sweep second
Data
11.5''', Dm= 26.0mm, Do= 26.65mm
H= 4.4mm
F= 0.8mm
T= 2.1mm
(all incl. 0.4mm hand-gear bridge)
17/19 jewels
f = 18000 A/h
power reserve 45h
Balance staff U3365
Stem W2988
Hands
1.60 x 1.04 x 0.18mm
DIMENSIONS, WEIGHT, FUNCTIONS
Width | 1.38 inch (35.0 mm) |
Width with crown | 1.50 inch (38.0 mm) |
Length | 1.65 inch (42.0 mm) |
Depth | 0.43 inch (11.0 mm) |
Crystal | 1.18 inch (30.0 mm) |
Weight | 1.19 oz (34.0 g) |
Function | Hours, minute, second |
Country made | USSR |
Dimensions of watches
HISTORY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodvorets_Watch_Factory
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory (Russian: Петродворцовый часовой завод) is the oldest factory in Russia. Founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works, to make hardstone carvings, since 1945 the factury manufactures the Soviet Pobeda watches and since 1961 it has manufactured the Soviet Raketa watches. In almost 300 years of history, the factory has changed name several times. Petrodvorets is located in Saint Petersburg.
Before the Revolution
Initially, the factory produced luxury objects in semi-precious and precious stones for the palaces of the Tsars. We find these objects now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, but also in most of the palaces of Europe, like Versailles, the Louvre or Sanssouci.
During Soviet times
In Soviet times, the plant has continued to work on precious stones. This plant has produced among others, the Mausoleum of Lenin in 1924 and the Kremlin stars in 1935.
In the prewar years, the skilled workers began manufacturing precision and measurement instruments for the Red Army and the new industry of Russian watches.
Destroyed by Nazi troops during the Siege of Leningrad, the plant was rebuilt from 1944 at the liberation of the city. In 1945 Joseph Stalin - who wanted to reduce USSR's dependence on imports from the West - gave the order to the factory to manufacture watches. The first watches were produced in the factory in 1949 under the brand Pobeda and Zvezda. In 1961, in honor of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the factory created its new brand, Raketa, which makes its reputation throughout the world of Communist influence.
In its glory years after the war, the plant employed 8,000 people, produced 4.5 million watches per year for Soviet citizens and the needs of the Red Army. The plant is equipped with two atomic bunkers that can accommodate 8,000 people in the case of a western nuclear attack, had its own schools, university, hospital, resorts on the Black Sea, camps for Communist Youth Pioneer organization and Komsomol and its orchestras.
After 1991
Today, the plant has dramatically cut production following the troubled years of privatization and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite huge difficulties in adapting to the capitalist system, Raketa is one of the few (together with Vostok and Zaria) watch manufacturers, remained after the fall of USSR.RECOMMENDATIONS
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