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 has one of the more graphic ZiM-era Pobeda dials: a deep blue dial with a woven, fabric-like texture, divided by fine silver crosshair lines, with the lower-left quarter picked out in light turquoise and overlaid with a silver grid. A stylised “12”, printed silver baton markers and the ПОБЕДА signature in Cyrillic complete it, with the small seconds sitting on the vertical line above 6 o’clock. The hands are silver-tone. The movement is signed ЗИМ 2602: the hand-wound ZiM calibre 2602.
The case is chrome-plated, with a decoratively notched bezel edge, straight lugs and a snap-on steel case back stamped with the serial number 228038.
Condition: the dial is clean and bright. The case shows plating wear with base metal showing on the notched bezel edge and the lug tips, the case back is scratched from use, and the acrylic crystal has light surface scratches. 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: 1970s-1980s
CASE SIZE approx. 40x35mm (with 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 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
