Description
Chaika Soviet mechanical watch with manual winding movement, 17 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
The watch features a small round gold-plated case with a manual-wind mechanical movement, worn on an elegant anchor-link chain (“medallion-style anchor chain”) in a matching gold-plated finish.
Manufactured on Uglichsky watch factory “Chaika”, USSR.
The name of the watch “Chaika” (means “seagull”) – the nickname of  Valentina Tereshkova – the first woman in space.
The trade mark ‘Chaika’ is on the dial.
A beautiful example of Soviet-era jewelry-watch craftsmanship — elegant, wearable, and rarely found complete with its original packaging.
Original Soviet “Chaika” has mechanical movement on 17 jewels with manual winding mechanism.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
MANUFACTURED February 1971
CASE SIZE 25.5mm x 18mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 7mm
TYPEÂ Mechanical
MOVEMENT 1091
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with its original box and accompanying paperwork/passport, adding authenticity and collectible value.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About Chaika brand
Chaika / Чайка
In December, 1937, the Council of People’s Commissars ordered a factory to be built in the town of Uglich, 120 km north of Moscow. This factory, named the Second State Precision Jewel Factory (ТТК-2), was constructed from 1938 until 1942. Initially, the factory produced semi-precious and precious stones for the technical industry (such as ruby jewels to be used in watch movements).
In 1950, the plant was renamed Uglich Watch Factory and began focusing on wristwatch production, first manufacturing Zvezda timepieces, and in 1959, expanding to Volga watches. But throughout the 1950s, the Uglich Watch Factory did not expand beyond ladies calibers.
Meanwhile, at the Chistopol Watch Factory, the 1950s were a period of intense focus on men’s wristwatch production. Around 1960, Chaika (Чайка, meaning “seagull”) was chosen as the name for one of the many Chistopol brands produced in this era. These watches featured a 17-jewel caliber 2605 with date complication. The Chistopol Watch Factory would terminate production of Chaika-branded watches around 1964, when the factory underwent a major rebranding. These were the last and only Chaikas to ever leave Chistopol’s factory walls.
Back in Uglich, things were changing quickly. In 1963, after cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in Space, the Uglich Watch Factory was renamed Chaika Watch Factory. (Chaika was the callsign Tereshkova used during her historic flight on board Vostok 6.) Shortly thereafter, the factory released the smallest caliber ever produced in the USSR, measuring just 6 x 9 millimeters in size: the Chaika 1200. This tiny caliber would go on to win a gold medal at the Leipzig World Fair in fall of 1966.
The Chaika Watch Factory lived on for decades, producing a wide array of different watches for both women and men, including automatic calibers, dive watches, ladies watches, and the first quartz resonator ever produced in the Soviet Union. These watches were also in high demand abroad and were exported to some 50 countries worldwide.
In 2006, the firm suspended mass production of wristwatches, and in 2009, the plant officially filed for bankruptcy.
