VINTAGE-Soviet-era-RAKETA 2609HA-rare-made in USSR-export 19 Jewels

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VINTAGE-Soviet-era-RAKETA 2609HA-rare-made in USSR-export 19 Jewels :
$23.50

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Russian Vintage Men\'s Wrist Watch Raketa 2609.HA \"Zero \" 1990\'s Big Numerals Chrome Plated Case Leather Strap
The watch is in very good working condition!
Movement: hand winding
Movement caliber: 2609.HA
Year of manufacture: 1990\'s
Case: chrome plated case
Case dimensions:
-length 40.0 mm
-width 39.3 mm
-width w/crown 40.9 mm
-glass (plexiglass) 34.8 mm
-depth 10.9 mm
-lugs 18.0 mm

Raketa Russian: watches have been manufactured since 1961 by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Saint Petersburg. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is Russia\'s oldest factory, it was founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works to make hardstone carvings. Raketa watches were produced for the Red Army, the Soviet Navy, for North Pole expeditions, as well as for civilians.April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin made the first flight in the history of mankind in outer space on the rocket Vostok 1. In honor of Yuri Gagarin the Petrodvorets Watch Factory named its watches \"Raketa,\" or \"rocket\" in Russian. At the height of the Cold War, however, the name \"Raketa\" was perceived negatively in the West, as the word was associated with the latest generation of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, the R-16.Before the Petrodvorets Watch Factory began to produce watches, it produced objects made of precious and semi-precious stones for the Tsar and his family. Later, it began to produce goods for military manufacturers as well as jewels\" for the watch industry. In 1949 the factory released the first watches under the names Zvezda (\"Звезда\", star) and Pobeda (\"Победа\", victory). The factory\'s own watches, sold under the brand name Raketa, first appeared in 1961 and the factory also began to manufacture its own movements, like the «Raketa - 2609N». Over the years, the Petrodvorets Watch Factory produced more than two dozen versions Raketa movements. Some were equipped with features such as automatic winding, calendars, 24-hour models for polar explorers, anti-magnetic watches (for use in case of a nuclear attack), as well as watches for the military. Mechanical Raketa watches produced in Petrodvorets were exported to many Eastern Bloc and communist countries and are considered one of the most durable and reliable movements in the world and by the 1980s Raketa was producing 4.5 million watches a year.