MOLNIJA 3602 Pocket watch Jesus Birth Jesus Christ Rozhdestvo Hristovo

On the front is a six-winged seraph (the highest angelic creature) with the Cyrillic letters 'R' & 'CH' '2000' (for Rozhdestwo Christovo = Birth of Christ).

The first line from the praise song 'Slava v vyshnih Bogu' = 'Glory to God in the highest' (corresponds to the Catholic hymn 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' / 'hymnus angelicus') is embossed on the back. In the story of the birth of Jesus, it is said that after the angels brought the news of the newborn Messiah to the shepherds in the field, they glorified God together with this song (Luke 2:14). Because this glorification of God comes from angels and from the heavenly choirs, these lines from the Gospel of Luke are also called Hymnus angelicus in church tradition, i.e. 'angelic song of praise'.

A rare Russian mechanical pocket watch brand "MOLNIJA" GOST 10733-98
A real collector's item made from old stock (NOS, New Old Stock). Mechanical quality movement that is no longer produced in this price range today.

Year of manufacture: 2001

The original MOLNIJA papers with short operating instructions are in Russian, German, French and English.
The scope of delivery includes standard plastic packaging - original from MOLNIJA.

CLOCKWORK:
3602 Molnija caliber, hand-wound, 18 jewels, balance with Breguet hairspring, balance escapement vibration 18000, power reserve when fully wound: 38+ hours

FEATURES:
Time display: hours/minutes/seconds

INDICATORS | SHOW:
Small second at position 9

HOUSING:
Heavy casing made of nickel silver (not mass-produced from chrome-plated brass), Ø 50mm, height 12.7mm

DIAL:
Dial angel grey-blue, hands: black, numerals/indices: black & Roman and gold-colored crosses at positions 3, 6, 9 and 12; between pos. An angel is depicted at 12 and pointer.

Dial Christmas bells silver-colored, hands: black, numbers/indices: black & Roman, logo Molnija and inscription "Made in Russia" in Latin

Dial angel sand-colored, hands: silver-colored with white inside, numerals/indices: black & Arabic with flowers in some positions, an angel is depicted in the middle of the dial.

MOLNIJA 3602
The Molnija 3602, which was produced for almost fifty years, between 1960 and 2008.
It goes back to the Cortebert 616, which was produced in Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s, and whose machines were probably subsequently sold to Russia.
Over time, this work was modified several times, in particular the height increased by over a millimeter, and the decoration became more and more economical until, towards the end, almost no decorative cuts and other decorations were added.

After the purchase

Watches are checked by our watchmaker for at least 1 day. Many of our watches are New Old Stock, and these watches in particular are measured, calibrated and serviced by our watchmaker. Please have a little patience. These watches do not ship on the same day.

Shipping Details

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Service and repair

We have specialized in repairing Russian watches and clock movements for over 25 years. In our fully equipped watchmaker's workshop, everything relating to your Russian watch can usually be serviced, repaired or fixed by one of our watchmakers. That's the advantage of our mechanical watches.

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We ♥ watches. We have been trading Russian watches from Poljot, Strela, Aviator, Buran, Vostok, Molnija, Slava, Raketa and many more since 1988. We run our own master watchmaker workshop in the center of Munich. Service and quality are particularly important to us when it comes to our mechanical watches.