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 ZiM Pobeda comes in one of the more unusual cases of the 1980s: a tonneau (barrel-shaped) case with brushed, ribbed hoods above and below the dial that run straight into a fitted black rubber strap. The dial is two-tone: a black outer ring with bold silver Arabic numerals and a minute track, around a blue sunburst centre. It is signed ПОБЕДА and has small seconds above 6 o’clock. The hands are polished steel with luminous inserts. The movement is stamped ЗИМ 2602: the hand-wound ZiM calibre 2602.
The case is chrome-plated, with a snap-on steel case back stamped with the serial number 222053.
Condition: the dial is clean, with the blue sunburst and the silver print intact. The chrome case is in good order with light wear from use, the case back has light scratches, and the acrylic crystal has light surface marks. The rubber strap shows some wear at the case ends. 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: 1980s
CASE SIZE approx. 33x42mm (excluding crown)
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT ZiM 2602, 15 jewels
CRYSTAL Acrylic
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with a rubber 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
