Description
Soviet mechanical KAMA watch – 17 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Manufactured on Chistopolsky Watch Factory “VOSTOK”, USSR.
The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the creation of the well known Komandirskie (“Commander’s”) watch.
This particular watch is manufactured in the 1950s on Chistopol Watch Factory(ChChZ).
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original soviet “Vostok” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
YEARS 1950s
CASE SIZE 42x37mm(with crown)
THICKNESS 9mm
LUG WIDTH 17mm
TYPE Mechanical
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
Watch went through a complete service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.
Comes with new old-fashioned leather strap included.
This watch ships out from🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About Kama brand
Kama / Кама
After World War II, the Chistopol Watch Factory focused heavily on wristwatch production. This lead to a proliferation of discrete brands in the 1950s, all powered by Chistopol movements. These brands included Almaz, Chaika, Druzhba, Kama, Kolos, Mir, Pobeda, Raduga, Rubin, Saturn, Sputnik, Uran, Volna, Vostok, and Yantar.
The Kama brand was named after the eponymous river (Река Кама), beside which the Chistopol Watch Factory was settled. This line of watches, first introduced in 1952, was well-known for its advanced movement design (a 17-jewel double-shock-resistant caliber 2603) and dust-resistant case technology. The larger, standard Kama case was produced in two styles (with a snap-on back or with a bayonet back), while a smaller, octagonal case featured only a bayonet back. All case-backs were stamped “Кама”.
The Kama brand was retired in 1964, when the vast majority of brands from the Chistopol Watch Factory were consolidated under a single trademark: Vostok.
About the watch factory
Watch Factory “VOSTOK” – began as the “2nd State Watch Factory” was evacuated during World War 2 to Chistopol in 1941.
In 1943 began producing Kirovskie watch – first soviet man’s wrist watch earlier made on 1st Moscow Watch Factory. From 1949 famous “Podeba” watches were made here.
From 1962 “Commander’s” watch Vostok were made on the factory.
Since 1969 factory was official supplier of Ministry of Defence, all watches produced were branded as “Vostok”
Other brands produced: Albatros, Amphibia, Buran, Chaika, General’s, Kama, Kolos, Comandirskie, Mir, Pobeda, Saturn, Sekonda, Sputnik, Svet, Uran, Vostok
