Description
Pobeda mechanical wrist watch – 15 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Legendary Soviet brand trademark Pobeda.
Based on a French design, the Pobeda’s simple, 15-jewel movement was cost-effective, reliable, and easy to manufacture and maintain. Full-scale production commenced at the First Moscow Watch Factory. Joseph Stalin chose the name Pobeda (Victory) to celebrate the end of the war.
Manufactured at the Maslennikov Factory (ZiM), Kuibyshev (now Samara), USSR
This example has a champagne-gold dial with Arabic numerals in a flowing typeface, a minute track, two faceted starburst markers at 12 and 6 o’clock, a small-seconds hand at 6 o’clock and the ПОБЕДА signature in Cyrillic, with «СДЕЛАНО В СССР» (“Made in USSR”) printed along the bottom. The hands are black. The movement is the hand-wound, 15-jewel ZiM calibre 2602.
The case is gold-plated, with an “Au” gold-plating mark on the case flank and a plain snap-on case back numbered 514300.
It comes complete with its original pink plastic box and factory passport. The passport is for the Pobeda 2602 made by the Maslennikov Factory (KPO “Zavod im. Maslennikova”, Kuibyshev) to GOST 10733-79. It carries the same watch number, 514300, and a release date of September 1990, describes the case as gold-plated (listing 0.143 g of gold in the watch as a whole), and gives the retail price as 35 roubles. The retailer’s stamp is on it and both warranty coupons are still attached.
Condition: new old stock (NOS), unused and complete with its box and papers. The gold plating is bright with no visible wear in the photos, the dial is clean, and the case back has a few light scratches. Everything is as shown in the photos.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
MANUFACTURED: September 1990 (release date on the passport)
CASE SIZE approx. 42x36mm (with crown)
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT ZiM 2602, 15 jewels
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with original box, passport and a new leather strap.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the watch factory
Pobeda Brand History
The brand name Pobeda was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, he gave the order that the first watches be ready for the 1st year of Victory celebration.
The first prototype came out of the Penza factory by the end of 1945, and the first model for the public came out of the Kirov Watch Factory in March 1946.
Note:
In the Soviet Union, a product brand was not necessarily exclusive to a particular manufacturing site (this changed though in the 60’s when each factory got its own brands), and during its lifetime, production of Pobeda watches was shifted between the following plants:
• Penza Watch Factory (Пензенский Часовой Завод): for a few years from 1945
• First Moscow Watch Factory (Первый Московский Часовой Завод): 1946 to 1953
• Petrodvorets Watch Factory (Петродворцовый Часовой Завод): 1946 to nowadays
• Chistopol Watch Factory (Чистопольский часовой завод): 1949 to the c.1950
• Second Moscow Watch Factory (Второй московский часовой завод): 1953 to 1964
• Maslennikov Factory (Завод имени Масленникова): c.1951 to 2004
