70s SLAVA 26Jewels USSR RUSSIAN SOVIET BIG Gold-plated MEN\'S WRIST WATCH
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70s SLAVA 26Jewels USSR RUSSIAN SOVIET BIG Gold-plated MEN\'S WRIST WATCH:
$75.00
Offered fo sale is
Vintage SLAVA 26 Jewels- c1970s
USSR RUSSIAN SOVIET MEN\'S WRIST WATCH
* The movement is quality, 26 jewels ,manual wind-
Works perfect , recently serviced .
* Date and day on the dial with fast date set button on 2 o\'clock
* Big , massive case -gold-plated 5 microns / AU5/ with
steel screw back - serial 417628
* Size approx.41mm x44 mm / with the crown /
* Interesting Retro - vintage design
Age: c. 1970\'sMovement - works perfect
Case - Looks very weel - has some micro marks dots / visible with loupe
Dial - perfect
Galss - very good - has some micro wear visible with loupe .
History :
Before October revolution Russiahad to assemble watches from ready parts, imported from Switzerland.
It was more profitable to assemble watches in Russia because of tax barriers. For example you pay 4,5 roubles for ready watch or even 6 roubles for the same watch in gold case. And you pay about 0,75 rouble for enormous qty of spare parts. Most famous brands ot that period were Henry Mozer, Pavel Bure, Victor Gabu, Freimuth, Kiseleff, Telefon. Some local workshops produced wallclocks and alarm clocks. Nobody even thought about watchmaking formation in tzar Russia.
After the 1917 revolution, the whole watch industry became a part of the ‘Trust of Precision Mechanics’. They were watch enterprises, work shops, warehouses of watch parts and half-finished products which belonged to famous manufacturers, mentioned before. Soviets first time assembled watches from the spare parts, left in Russiaafter revolution - there were Longines, Zenit, Omega, HM etc.
But to 1926 all warehouses were out of spare parts. Only in 1927th there was a decision to start watch producing in Russia. First Soviet watch had been manufactured in 1930. Primarily Russiaused foreign bimetallic balance wheels, bouchons, screws. Then Soviets began producing their own jewels and balances. I won\'t say it was a perfect quality - but it was fully made in Russia! This movement (pocket one) came up to WW2.
To start production, four types of watches were chosen: a men pocket watch with 15 jewels for the enterprises of the Narkomat (Ministry) of Means of Communications, men wrist-watch with 7 jewels for the Red Army; a men pocket watch with 7 jewels and a ladies wrist-watch with 15 jewels to sell in a market. For the prototype there had been chosen French \"Lip\" movement R43 (43 mm in diameter).
In December of 1941 most part of equipment and personnel was displaced to Zlatoustin Chelybinsk region. Until nowdays it produces some stopwatches and AChS-11, modernized 1st MWF pre-war production. Then in 1942 another factory evacuated in Chistopol. It was incipience of \"Vostok\" factory. Most of this equipment had left after the war in Chistopol. During the World War Two evacuated pland stopped producind watches and worked for military aims. After WW2 there were enough machinery and (more important) many watch specialists to found Chistopol watch plant with \"Vostok\" trade mark.According to agreement (reparations) after WW2 some equipment, tools, etc Russiahad got from Germany. Glashutte factories had lost almost all machinery. It was quite new equipment, so Russians were able to produce modern movements of that time, using high class of finishing. The 1st Moscow Watch Factory (now Poljot) started producing K-26 (\"Pobeda\") in 1946. \"Pobeda\" movement is based on well known for us \"Lip\" R26. For more information about \"Lip\" you can read an article ofNick Downes.It\'s VERY reliable movement. Many of them work for 40-50 years! Recently there was a joke among russian watchmakers: You shouldn\'t clean \"Pobeda\" not to spoil a structure of dirt.
First time \"Pobeda\" had been manufactured only at 1st Moscow Watch Factory (1947-1953). Then it started producing more modern watches and displaced \"Pobeda\" to other factories. There were \"Vostok\", 2nd Moscow Watch Factory, ZIM (Zavod Imeni Maslenkova - watch factory in Samara) and \"Raketa\". Every manufacture had some changes with the movement. Vostok added calendar and two cap jewels to escape wheel, besides it began producing movements with Incabloc protection. \"Raketa\" started later, I\'d never met \"Raketas\" with calendar, but they added to original movement central jewel.
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70s SLAVA 26Jewels USSR RUSSIAN SOVIET BIG Gold-plated MEN\'S WRIST WATCH:
$75.00