Description
Raketa “Medicine” Soviet quartz watch with pulse scale
MADE IN USSR!
A Soviet doctor’s watch with a working pulse scale: count 15 heartbeats and the seconds hand points to the pulse in beats per minute – about a quarter of the time a full-minute count takes.
The textured cream dial is printed in black, with two pulse scales – one read from 12, the other from 6 – each marked “ЧАСТОТА ПУЛЬСА ПО 15 УДАРАМ” (pulse rate over 15 beats) and reading from 35 to 160 beats per minute. A bowl-and-snake emblem of medicine sits below the centre, under a bold “12”. The dial is signed “РАКЕТА”, “КВАРЦ” (quartz) and “СДЕЛАНО В СССР” (made in the USSR). The gold-tone case has a steel case back stamped with the Soviet State Quality Mark.
Made at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, USSR.
The watch is quartz and runs on a single button-cell battery. The movement is the Soviet quartz calibre 2356, stamped “SU”.
CASE SIZE 38x36mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 8.5mm
LUG WIDTH18mm
TYPE Quartz
MOVEMENT 2356
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds, pulse scale (15 beats)
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with a new Nagata leather strap.
Watches like this were made for doctors and nurses.
HOW TO TAKE A PULSE WITH THIS WATCH
1. Feel for the pulse at the wrist and wait for the seconds hand to reach 12 or 6 – the dial has a scale for each.
2. Start counting heartbeats as the hand passes that mark.
3. Stop on the 15th beat and read the number under the seconds hand on the scale you started from – that is the pulse in beats per minute.
Counting 15 beats takes about 15 seconds at a resting pulse, so there is no need to count for a full minute. Example: start at 12, and if the 15th beat lands as the hand reaches 3, the scale reads 60.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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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 onfactory’s website.
