TIME CAPSULE: Vintage soviet Cardinal-Raketa watch, NEW old stock(NOS)!

$189.95

Original mechanical vintage RAKETA watch with manual winding

MADE IN USSR!

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

1 in stock

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Description

Vintage soviet Cardinal mechanical watch

MADE IN USSR!

 

Manufactured on Petrodvortsovsky watch factory, USSR

 

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

 

The Cardinal watch brand has its roots in the Wein family (formally Weinzieher). The Wein family originally emigrated to the US from Ukraine and would go on to form important branches of the North American watch industry. The foundations were established in 1904 with the incorporation of Weinstrum Watches, later to be known known as Wein Brothers. Eventually, the larger family enterprise dissolved into various individual undertakings.

Cardinal watches were produced from the 1960s through the 1990s by numerous Soviet factories, including Raketa, Poljot, Slava, ZIM and Molnija.

Cardinal was a Toronto-based watch company founded in 1923.

 

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


MANUFACTURE DATE:  23 April 1992

CASE SIZE 40×35.5mm (with crown)

THICKNESS 10mm

TYPE  Mechanical

LUG WIDTH 18mm

MOVEMENT 2609 HA

FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds

 

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

 

Comes with box, passport and nylon NATO strap for free.

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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.

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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