Description
Kirovskie watch from 1950s – 16 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Beautiful vintage watch manufactured on 1st Moscow Watch Factory
Watches branded ‘Kirovskie’ were among the first wristwatches produced at the famous 1st Moscow Watch Factory Kirov. You can see the old factory mark around the 6: “1МЧЗ им Кирова”.
The 1MWF manufactured early Pobeda watches, Sturmanskie (the first watch in space), Rodina, Sputnik, the first Komandirskies, and finally Poljot watches, for which they’re probably best known.
These stylish “crab” style Kirovskie watches were produced in the 1950’s, many of them show its age.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet “Kirovskie” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
YEARS 1950s
CASE SIZE 44mmx36.5mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 9.5mm
LUG WIDTH 18mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2408
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
Mechanical lever movement
Manual winding
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with a new Nagata leather strap.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the watch factory
1st Moscow Watch Factory – named “1.MWF “Kirov”” from 1935 till 1964(renamed to Poljot afterwards) – the biggest and oldest of Soviet watch factories.
Russian watches have a rich and interesting history dating back over 80 years with the creation of the First Moscow Watch Factory, which today manufactures Poljot watches.
A highlight of Russia’s watch history came in 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took the first ever flight into space with a watch from the First Moscow Watch Factory.
About Kirovskie brand
Kirovskie / Кировские
Kirovskie (Кировские) was one of the wristwatch brands of the First Moscow Watch Factory, the plant that carried Sergei Kirov’s name, which is why the dials read «1МЧЗ им. Кирова». In the 1950s the factory sold its watches under a long list of names, among them Pobeda, Mayak, Moskva, Sportivnie, Sputnik, Stolichnie, Sturmanskie and Kirovskie, all built on its own movements.
Kirovskie watches were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s and sold extremely well. Inside is the calibre 2408: a 16-jewel movement with a central seconds hand, a thorough redesign of the older 2608 from the Pobeda and Moskva that made the watch much slimmer.
The brand is remembered above all for its looks. Sunburst, matte and embossed dials came in two-tone colourways that were unusual for the USSR at the time, in classic, “crab” and smaller cases, chrome-plated, gold-plated and occasionally solid gold. That flamboyance made Kirovskie a favourite of the stilyagi, the Soviet youth counterculture of the era.
In 1964 the factory brought almost all of its brands together under a single name, Poljot. Many later Poljot watches kept the Kirovskie styling with only the name on the dial changed, but the most colourful Kirovskie designs were never made again.
