24 hours
A Raketa 24-hour watch does something no ordinary watch does: the hour hand goes round once a day, not twice. Midnight sits at the top, noon at the bottom, and the whole day is laid out on the dial at once — so you can see at a glance whether it is 07:00 or 19:00 without anything outside the window telling you. That was the point. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory built these for Soviet North Pole expeditions, where the sun simply does not rise or set for months at a time and a normal 12-hour dial is genuinely ambiguous. Every one of them runs the hand-wound 2623.Н calibre, Raketa’s dedicated 24-hour movement.
The format outlived its polar brief and became one of the most distinctive things the Soviet watch industry ever made — including the Goroda “World Traveler” versions, which add a rotating city ring so the 24-hour dial doubles as a world-timer. They take a moment to learn to read and then become oddly hard to give up. Each one below has been serviced by our watchmaker, tested, and photographed individually — the watch in the pictures is the watch you receive. See also the full Raketa collection and our space-themed Soviet watches.
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Vintage Soviet Raketa 24-Hour Watch – Cream Dial with Blue Numerals and Black Second-Time-Zone Ring, Cal. 2623.H
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Vintage Raketa World Traveler (Goroda) 24-hour watch – silver sunburst dial with Russian city ring, 1990s, Cal. 2623.H
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TIME CAPSULE: Vintage Raketa 24 Hour Watch NOS with Passport – Silver Dial with World Cities Bezel, Cal. 2623.H
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Out of stockVintage Raketa “Condor” 24-hour world time watch – silver sunburst dial with jet & eagle, 1990s, Cal. 2623
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Vintage Soviet Raketa Navy 24-hour mechanical watch with anchor dial, rotating watch-shift ring and original Soviet strap, 1980s
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Excellent Vintage Soviet Raketa World Traveler (Goroda) 24-hour mechanical watch with gold-plated case and silver sunburst dial, 1980s
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Out of stockVintage Soviet Raketa World Traveler (Goroda) wristwatch with 24 hours 2623.H mechanical movement
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Out of stockExcellent Soviet Raketa wristwatch with 24 hours 2623.H mechanical movement
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Excellent Raketa World Traveler (Goroda) wristwatch with 24 hours 2623.H mechanical movement – with Lenin!
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Out of stockExcellent Soviet mechanical Raketa-Cities (Goroda) watch with 24 hours 2623.H mechanical movement
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TIME CAPSULE: Vintage Soviet Raketa 24 Hour Watch NOS in Original Turquoise Box – Silver Dial with Blue Ring and Anchor, Cal. 2623.H
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Vintage Raketa 24 Hour Watch – Silver Dial with World Cities Bezel, Cal. 2623.H
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Out of stockVintage Soviet mechanical Raketa watch with 24 hours 2623.H mechanical movement
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Vintage Raketa 24 Hour Watch – Silver Dial with Red and Blue Day-Night Ring, Cal. 2623.H
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Soviet Raketa 24 Hour Watch – Silver Dial with Red and Blue Ring and Anchor Emblem, Cal. 2623.H