Description
Soviet mechanical Vesna wrist watch, 17 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
This is a classic stylish mechanical wristwatch Vesna (“Spring” in russian).
Lovely vintage watch made by Vesna (Pensa Watch Factory).
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet Vesna watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
YEAR 1960s
CASE SIZE 40.5mm x 33.5mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 10mm
LUG WIDTH 16mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2009
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes with leather strap included.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the brand
Vesna / Весна
Vesna (Весна, meaning “spring”) was one of the brands of the Penza Watch Factory. The factory was founded in April 1935 as the Third State Watch Factory, on the site of the Frunze Bicycle Plant, using tooling bought from the French watchmaker LIP. LIP engineers installed the equipment and trained the Russian staff, and the plant took the name Penza Watch Factory in 1940.
Penza specialised in small ladies’ movements and sold them under many names through the 1950s: Vesna, Zvezda, Kometa, Mechta, Aurora and others. Vesna stood out as one of the very few Penza lines that also included men’s watches. It was a popular, widely produced brand into the early 1960s, built on the 17-jewel calibre 2009.
Around 1964 Penza retired its separate brand names and moved all of its watches to a single trademark, Zaria (Заря). That is why later watches from the same factory carry the Zaria name.
About the watch factory
In early 1930s there were already two functioning watch factories. In 1935 decision was made to build another factory to produce women’s watches.
After long negotiations french equipment LIP was purchased and the construction of factory begins in Penza(on Penza bicycle factory). In 1938 the first watches were produced.
The factory produced mainly womens watches of small caliber movements. However, some men’s watches were also produced.
All watches were branded “Zarya” only after 1965.
Other watches produced on the factory: «ЗИФ», «Звезда», «Победа», «Аврора», «Комета», «Мечта», «Весна», «Рассвет».
