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.
This particular watch was made at the First Moscow Watch Factory (1MChZ named after Kirov) in the 4th quarter of 1953!
Cream dial with black Arabic numerals, gold-tone hands and a small-seconds subdial at 6 with a black track, signed ПОБЕДА and «1МЧЗ им. КИРОВА». The movement carries the Pobeda name and three stars on the barrel, the 1MChZ diamond logo, «15 КАМНЕЙ» and the date stamp «4-53». Chrome-plated case, gilt knurled crown and a plain snap-on case back.
A presentation watch with a story: the case back is hand-engraved in Czech with the monogram «LF» and «Za 30 let záslužné práce v hornictví 7.XI.1954 J.D.-N.P.», which translates as “For 30 years of meritorious work in mining, 7 November 1954”. It was given to a miner in Czechoslovakia for three decades of service. The initials J.D.-N.P. most likely stand for the issuing mining enterprise (n.p. = národní podnik, “national enterprise”).
Honest condition note: after 70 years the cream dial has an even aged patina with light speckling and a few small spots, mostly toward the edge. The chrome-plated case has wear on the lugs and case sides, with scratches, small spots of pitting and green deposits under the lugs and on the movement side of the case. The case back has fine scratches around the engraving.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
YEARS 1953
CASE SIZE approx. 40.5mmx34mm (with crown)
CRYSTAL Acrylic
LUG WIDTH 16mm
TYPE Mechanical
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds
Mechanical lever movement
Manual winding
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with a new Nagata 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
