Description
POBEDA mechanical wrist watch – 15 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Legendary Soviet brand trademark POBEDA.
Based on a French design, the Pobeda’s simple, 15-jewel movement was cost-effective, reliable, and easy to manufacture and maintain. Full-scale production commenced at the First Moscow Watch Factory. Joseph Stalin chose the name Pobeda (Victory) to celebrate the end of the war.
Made in 1950s on 1st Moskow watch factory.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
This particular watch is manufactured in 3rd quarter of 1954
Original soviet watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
Collector’s alert – rare watch!
According to multiple sources this was the actual first watch in space – the very first watch in space!
Strapped to the leg of Chernushka dog by Soviet aerospace medical researcher Dr. Abraham Genin, it made it to space and back on Sputnik-4 spacecraft on March 9th, 1961!
Check this article from watchyouseek for more info.
Needless to say that such items so far show appreciation in value over time.
Get it while you can!
YEARS 1950s
CASE SIZE 39x34mm
THICKNESS 10mm
LUG WIDTH 16mm
TYPE Mechanical
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
DUST & MOISTURE PROOF “hermetic” case with rubberized winding crown
Mechanical lever movement
Manual winding
Watch been fully serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with old fashined black leather strap.
This watch ships from Ukraine with tracking number usually within the same business day!
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About the watch factory
POBEDA Brand History
The brand name Pobeda was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, he gave the order that the first watches be ready for the 1st year of Victory celebration.
The first prototype came out of the Penza factory by the end of 1945, and the first model for the public came out of the Kirov Watch Factory in March 1946.
Note:
In the Soviet Union, a product brand was not necessarily exclusive to a particular manufacturing site (this changed though in the 60’s when each factory got its own brands), and during its lifetime, production of Pobeda watches was shifted between the following plants:
• Penza Watch Factory (Пензенский Часовой Завод): for a few years from 1945
• First Moscow Watch Factory (Первый Московский Часовой Завод): 1946 to 1953
• Petrodvorets Watch Factory (Петродворцовый Часовой Завод): 1946 to nowadays
• Chistopol Watch Factory (Чистопольский часовой завод): 1949 to the c.1950
• Second Moscow Watch Factory (Второй московский часовой завод): 1953 to 1964
• Maslennikov Factory (Завод имени Масленникова): c.1951 to 2004
