Description
Soviet Raketa “Medicine” quartz watch with pulse scale
MADE IN USSR!
Raketa (Ракета, meaning “Rocket”) doctor’s watch with a textured cream dial printed in blue. Two pulse scales run around the dial, each labelled «ЧАСТОТА ПУЛЬСА ПО 15 УДАРАМ» (“pulse rate over 15 beats”): one starts at 12 o’clock, the other at 6, and both read from 35 to 160 beats per minute. A blue snake-and-bowl medical emblem sits below the centre. Black hands, a black “12” numeral and polished baton markers complete the dial, which is signed «РАКЕТА / КВАРЦ» and marked «СДЕЛАНО В СССР» (Made in USSR).
The round chrome-plated case has a snap-on steel case back stamped with the Soviet State Quality Mark and the number 385990.
Manufactured at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, USSR. The State Quality Mark (Знак качества) was introduced in 1967. The quartz movement and the styling of the dial place this watch around the 1980s.
The watch has a quartz movement and runs on a single battery. Caliber 2356 (stamped on the bridge, with “SU”) is the Soviet quartz movement with centre seconds.
CASE SIZE 38x36mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 10mm
LUG WIDTH 18mm
CRYSTAL Acrylic
TYPE Quartz
MOVEMENT 2356
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 case shows light wear and small pits on the flanks, and there is a spot of corrosion on the case at the case-back opening notch. The case back has scratches from use.
Comes complete with a new Nagata leather strap.
Watches like this were made for doctors and nurses.
HOW TO TAKE A PULSE WITH THIS WATCH
1. Feel for the pulse at the wrist and wait for the seconds hand to reach 12 or 6 – the dial has a scale for each.
2. Start counting heartbeats as the hand passes that mark.
3. Stop on the 15th beat and read the number under the seconds hand on the scale you started from – that is the pulse in beats per minute.
Counting 15 beats takes about 15 seconds at a resting pulse, so there is no need to count for a full minute. Example: start at 12, and if the 15th beat lands as the hand reaches 3, the scale reads 60.
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.
