Vintage Soviet Russia watch Poljot mens wrist watch from 1970s huge watch
This is authentic mechanical watch Poljot from Russia (Soviet Union era) Size: 3,3cm / 1,3" diameter (watch face) Manual wind, mechanical movement.... more>>
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This is authentic mechanical watch Poljot from Russia (Soviet Union era) Size: 3,3cm / 1,3" diameter (watch face) Manual wind, mechanical movement. Year: 1970s Good working condition. Full tested and conditioned by master (adjusted, cleaned, oiled) Strap is new (unused) Poljot (Russian: , literally meaning "flight"), a brand of watches from Russia produced since 1964 by the First Moscow Watch Factory. Founded in 1930 under orders from Stalin, the First State Watch Factory (Russian: - 1) was the first Serious Soviet watch and mechanical movement manufacturer. Via its USA-based trading company Amtorg, the Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio. It moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the USA to Moscow in order to establish the factory. Twenty-one former Dueber-Hampden watchmakers, engravers and various other technicians helped to train the Russian workers in the art of watchmaking as part of the Soviet's First Five-Year Plan. Interestingly, the movements of very-early products were still stamped "Dueber-Hampden, Canton, Ohio, USA" (examples of these watches are very collectible today). In 1935 the factory was named after the murdered Soviet official Sergei Kirov. As the Germans closed in on Moscow in 1941, the factory was hurriedly evacuated to Zlatoust (Russian: ). By 1943 the Germans were in retreat, and the factory moved back to Moscow, adopting the "First Moscow Watch Factory" name (Russian: - 1). On April 12th 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. During his historic flight he wore a Shturmanskie pilots wristwatch (a transliteration of which actually means "Navigator"). This watch was not specially commissioned for the flight, they were standard issue to all air force pilots at the time. The success of the mission however lead to the factory being awarded the Poljot (Russian: ) name in 1964.
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