Description
Soviet mechanical Raketa wrist watch, 16 jewels
MADE IN USSR!
Raketa (Ракета, meaning “Rocket”) with a silver guilloché dial: a fine engine-turned pattern of concentric waves around a sunburst “flower” at the centre, gold-tone Arabic numerals and dagger markers, gold-tone hands and a centre seconds hand. The dial is signed in script “Raketa 16 JEWELS”, with “MADE IN USSR” at 6 o’clock.
Manufactured at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, USSR — the factory’s diamond ПЧЗ logo is stamped on the movement bridge next to “16 КАМНЕЙ” (16 jewels). The 16-jewel movement, script signature and dress-watch styling are typical of the first generation of Raketa watches from the 1960s.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet Raketa watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding. Caliber 2609 is the Petrodvorets centre-seconds movement (the “09” in Soviet caliber numbering means central seconds), here in its early 16-jewel version with shock protection on the balance.
CASE SIZE 35x42mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 10mm
LUG WIDTH 16mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2609, 16 jewels
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, 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
The case back carries the factory inscription in Russian:
“Пылевлагозащитные с противоударным устройством” –
“Dust- and moisture-protected, with shock-protection device”.
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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.
