Description
ZiM ChK-6 vintage mechanical pocket watch – 15 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Made at the Maslennikov Factory – Zavod imeni Maslennikova, ZiM (Завод им. Масленникова, ЗиМ) – in Kuibyshev, the city known today as Samara. The plant opened in 1911 making fuzes for artillery shells and began making watches in 1937.
The ChK-6 (ЧК-6) is ZiM’s big post-war pocket watch: a hand-wound 15-jewel lever movement in a chrome-plated case, with a snap-on back and an inner dust cover protecting the movement.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
This particular watch was manufactured in the 4th quarter of 1947!
YEARS 1940s
CASE SIZE Approx. 50x60mm (with crown)
THICKNESS Approx. 15mm
CASE Chrome-plated, engine-turned back, inner dust cover
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT ZiM ChK-6 (ЧК-6), 15 jewels, manual winding
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
The cream dial has honest age patina with a few small spots, and the chrome case shows light scratches from use, as expected on a watch from the 1940s.
Comes complete with a bronze-tone chain.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the watch factory
About ZiM watch factory
The Maslennikov Factory (Завод имени Масленникова, ZiM) stood in Samara, which was named Kuibyshev from 1935 to 1991. It opened in 1911 as a fuze works, making fuzes for artillery shells, and in 1923 it was named after the Bolshevik revolutionary Alexander Maslennikov, the first chairman of the Samara city council.
Watchmaking began in 1937. During the Second World War the plant made munitions as well.
From the early 1950s ZiM also made watches under the Pobeda (Победа) name, alongside its own ZiM brand. Several Soviet factories used the Pobeda name, so a ZiM-made Pobeda should not be confused with the Moscow-made ones.
ZiM struggled after the collapse of the USSR; watch production ended in the early 2000s and the factory was later wound up in bankruptcy.