Description
Black RAKETA COPERNICUS mechanical watch
MADE IN USSR!
Manufactured at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, USSR
The black dial with its brushed gold Sun disc, gold screw-head markers and the unusual disc hands, all set in a black case, make this watch very special in any collection. The dial is a little orrery: the large ring (minute hand) is the Earth, circling the Sun once an hour the way it does once a year, and the small disc (hour hand) is Jupiter, which takes twelve hours here and about twelve years in the sky.
The trade mark ‘РАКЕТА’ (Raketa in Cyrillic) is on the dial.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original soviet “RAKETA” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.
This is a Soviet-made Copernicus: the dial is marked «Сделано в СССР» (Made in USSR) at the 6 o’clock position and the movement carries the “SU” stamp.
CASE SIZE 41.5x38mm (with crown)
LUG WIDTH 18mm
CRYSTAL Acrylic
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2609.HA
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
CONDITION: the dial and hands are clean. The black-coated case shows honest wear: the coating has rubbed through to the brass on the bezel edge, the lug tips and the case sides, and there is a chip in the case edge next to the case-back opening notch. The steel case back has light scratches.
Comes complete with a new Nagata leather strap.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the watch factory
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory «Raketa» was founded by Peter the Great in 1721. Factory was producing wide range of items, including jewels for watches since 1930.
Factory was devastated during World War 2, restored in 1949 and was making “Pobeda”(Victory) and “Zvezda” watches. In 1954 renamed into Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
Since 1962 “Raketa” watches are produced which became the trade mark of the factory.
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is one of the rare watch factories in the world that fully manufactures its own movements from A to Z, including hairspring and escapement.
Other band names produced on the factory include Baltika, Leningrad, Mayak, Neva, Pobeda, Raketa, Rossiya, Svet, Start.
Read more about on of few surviving soviet watch factories on factory’s website.
