Description
Soviet mechanical Raketa wrist watch with cream two-tone dial and Breguet-style Arabic numerals
MADE IN USSR!
Raketa (Ракета, meaning “Rocket”) with a two-tone cream dial: a lightly textured outer ring carrying full black Breguet-style Arabic numerals 1 to 12 and a printed minute track, around a centre disc with a fine linear pattern framed by a thin copper-coloured ring. Black hands with a slim black centre seconds hand. The dial is signed “Ракета” in script above the centre, carries the Soviet State Quality Mark below it, and reads “СДЕЛАНО В СССР” (Made in USSR) above the 6.
The round chrome-plated case has a slim polished bezel, straight lugs and a plain steel snap-on case back carrying only a number (118909).
Manufactured at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, USSR. The State Quality Mark was introduced in 1967 and the “СДЕЛАНО В СССР” marking dates it to before the end of the Soviet Union in 1991; the style points to the 1970s–80s.
The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.
Original Soviet Raketa watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding. Caliber 2609.HA (stamped on the bridge) is the Petrodvorets 19-jewel movement with centre seconds.
CASE SIZE approx. 34mm (without crown)
LUG WIDTH 18mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2609.HA, 19 jewels
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds
CONDITION: The dial is clean, with crisp printing and some light age freckling on the textured outer ring. The chrome plating on the front of the case and lugs is in good order with light wear. On the back side of the case, around the case-back rim and on the flank beside the crown, there are patches of old corrosion deposit (visible in the case-back and movement photos). The steel case back has light scratches.
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
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.
