TIME CAPSULE: Raketa Copernicus Butterfly – new old stock(NOS)!

$374.95

Vintage mechanical RAKETA watch with manual winding

Beautiful unused Raketa Copernicus Butterfly – with box and it’s papers included!

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

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Description

RAKETA COPERNICUS-Butterfly mechanical watch
MADE IN USSR!

 

Manufactured on Petrodvortsovsky watch factory, USSR

 

Black dial and unusual hands make this watch very special in any collection.

 

The trade mark ‘RAKETA’ is on the dial.

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

 

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

This watch from early 1990s –

the movement with “SU”(Soviet Union) stamp

“Made in USSR” on the dial 6 o’clock position.

CASE SIZE 42x37m(with crown)

THICKNESS 11mm

LUG WIDTH 18mm

TYPE  Mechanical

MOVEMENT 2609.НП

FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds

 

Watch been through a recent service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.

 

Comes with it’s box and passport with matching serial number.

Comes with NAGATA black leather strap!

Collector’s red alert: TIME CAPSULE!

Once is a while a NOS gem is unearthed – original vintage watch, in unused condition, complete with it’s box and papers.

Items like these are rare, they take us back in time, like a TIME CAPSULE!

Such items so far show appreciation in value over time.

Get it while you can!

Modes of payment:

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  • BDO bank deposits (for Philippines customers only)

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

About the watch factory

The Petrodvorets Watch Factory «Raketa» was founded by Peter the Great in 1721. Factory was producing wide range of items, including jewels for watches since 1930.
Factory was devastated during World War 2, restored in 1949 and was making “Pobeda”(Victory) and “Zvezda” watches. In 1954 renamed into Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
Since 1962 “Raketa” watches are produced which became the trade mark of the factory.

The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is one of the rare watch factories in the world that fully manufactures its own movements from A to Z, including hairspring and escapement.

Other band names produced on the factory include Baltika, Leningrad, Mayak, Neva, Pobeda, Raketa, Rossiya, Svet, Start.

Read more about on of few surviving soviet watch factories on factory’s website.

raketa vintage watch