Description
Digital Vintage USSR Watch Electronica 5
MADE IN USSR!
This is vintage Soviet LCD digital watch Electronika-5
Soviet watch Electronika 5 was a popular digital watch produced in the USSR in the 1980s.
This one is the black, nearly weightless plastic-case version with a black dial and gold-printed «ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА 5» signature. The LCD display shows hours, minutes and seconds plus the month and date, as labelled on the dial: МЕСЯЦ (month), ЧИСЛО (date), ЧАС (hour), МИН (minutes), СЕК (seconds). The pushers work the backlight (СВЕТ), the mode (РЕЖИМ) and the setting (КОРРЕКЦИЯ). Quartz, battery powered.
A simple, honest piece of 1980s Soviet electronics: light on the wrist, easy to read, and printed in Cyrillic throughout down to the «СДЕЛАНО В СССР» (Made in USSR) line.
The watch is pre-owned and in good cosmetic and working condition. The display is clear and easy to read. The plastic case shows light wear on the edges and the steel case back has fine scratches, consistent with age.
Case height (lug to lug) – 41.5mm
Case width – 36.5mm
Case thickness – 9.5mm
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time*.
*Accuracy note: this watch consistently looses about 25 seconds a day
Comes complete with new rubber strap.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About Elektronika brand
Elektronika / Электроника
Electronika or Elektronika? Both spellings mean the same brand. The Soviet name is Электроника, and English-language sources transliterate it as either “Electronika” or “Elektronika”. This watch is the same one under either name.
Elektronika (Электроника) is the brand name used for many different electronic products built by factories belonging to the Soviet Ministry of Electronic Industry. These included computer systems, calculators, electronic watches, tape recorders, video recorders, portable games, and radios. Some products were exported under various names, including Sekonda and Elorg, and some devices were direct copies of foreign technology.
The watch brand Elektronika was the Soviet response to the advent of quartz technology in the West. The first Elektronika quartz watches appeared in the early 1970s and were based on technology from Western brands such as Pulsar. Early models had very few functions, but as the technology developed, more advanced functions were developed (e.g. chronograph and calendar complications). At least four factories were responsible for the production of Elektronika watches, including Pulsar (Moscow), Angstrem (Zelenograd), Integral (Minsk), and Soyuz (Novosibirsk). The primary factory, Integral Joint Stock Company, continues to make a variety of consumer electronics today.
