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 on ZiM watch factory, USSR
This example carries a black dial with a fine cross-hatch texture, painted Arabic numerals, dot minute markers and a sweep seconds hand. It is marked POBEDA and MADE IN USSR in Latin script — the export-market dial — with 15 jewels printed below the centre. The movement is signed ЗИМ 15 КАМНЕЙ: the hand-wound, 15-jewel ZiM calibre 2602, behind a plain snap-on case back.
Condition: the watch is pre-owned and the chrome plating shows honest wear, with brassing along the bezel edge and on the lugs. The dial, hands and crystal are clean and the case back is unmarked.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
MANUFACTURED: 1970s–1980s
TYPE Mechanical
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
CASE SIZE 41x36mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 9.5mm
Mechanical lever movement
Manual winding
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with a new black 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
