RARE! Beautiful vintage soviet wrist watch from 50s – Kirovskie 1MWF

$199.95

Original Soviet mechanical vintage Kirovskie watch with manual winding

MADE IN USSR!

This watch ships from 🇺🇦Ukraine with tracking number usually within the same business day

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Description

Kirovskie watch from 1950s – 16 jewels

MADE IN USSR!

 

Beautiful vintage watch manufactured on 1st Moscow Watch Factory

Watches branded ‘Kirovskie’ were among the first wristwatches produced at the famous 1st Moscow Watch Factory Kirov. You can see the old factory mark around the 6: “1МЧЗ им Кирова”.
The 1MWF manufactured early Pobeda watches, Sturmanskie (the first watch in space), Rodina, Sputnik, the first Komandirskies, and finally Poljot watches, for which they’re probably best known.

These stylish “crab” style Kirovskie watches were produced in the 1950’s, many of them show its age.

 

The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.

 

Original soviet “Kirovskie” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.

 

YEARS 1950s

CASE SIZE 44x36mm

THICKNESS 9mm

LUG WIDTH 18mm

TYPE  Mechanical

MOVEMENT 2408

FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds

Mechanical lever movement
Manual winding

Watch has been fully serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.

 

Comes complete with NAGATA brown leather strap.

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This watch ships from Ukraine with tracking number within the same business day!

About the watch factory

1st Moscow Watch Factory – named “1.MWF “Kirov”” from 1935 till 1964(renamed to POLJOT afterwards) – the biggest and oldest of soviet watch factories.
Russian watches have a rich and interesting history dating back over 80 years with the creation of the First Moscow Watch Factory, which today manufactures Poljot watches.

A highlight of Russia’s watch history came in 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took the first ever flight into space with a watch from the First Moscow Watch Factory.

POLJOT Brand History

Watches branded ‘Kirovskie’ were among the first wristwatches produced at the famous 1st Moscow Watch Factory Kirov.

The early watches have the old factory mark around the 6: “1МЧЗ им Кирова”.

The 1MWF also manufactured early Pobeda watches, Sturmanskie (the first watch in space), Rodina, Sputnik, the first Komandirskies, and finally Poljot watches, for which they’re probably best known.