Description
Vintage gold-plated Soviet Raketa pocket mechanical watch
MADE IN USSR!
Manufactured on Petrodvortsovsky watch factory.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet “Raketa” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
This particular watch is made on Petvodvoretz Watch factory in August 1973!
CASE SIZE 40mm
CASE LENGTH 43.5mm(incl. the crown)
THICKNESS 8.5mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2209
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes as a complete set with box, passport and chain!
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 on factory’s website.
