USSR Big Watch, vintage mens wrist watch USSR, RAKETA Cornavin mechanical watch. Russian watch Red dial. Gift for men. Rare Working Watch !

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Legendary russian wrist watch RAKETA.BIG Watch1980s.The watches are fully checked up, went through full prophylaxis. I guarantee, my watches are hundred percent qualified and work perfectly fine.
Petrodvorets Classic – the watch worn by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 80′s. While in an official visit to Italy, he was asked by local journalists what perestroika meant for Russia. Gorbachev replied that Russians decided to start their lives from zero and showed them his own Raketa wristwatch which read “0″ in lieu of the “12″ mark." (http://www.raketa.com)
Mechanism 2609 НА , shock resistant .Watch in very good condition - see on photos

Its dimension are:

Diameter of watch: 36,5 mm
Diameter of watch with crown: 39,4mm
Diameter of dial: 34,7 mm
Thickness: 11,37 mm
Band size: 18 mm


NOTE: All watches we are selling are mechanical – it means, that every watch uses mechanical mechanism to measure the passage of time and no battery required.

It was founded in 1721 by Peter the Great, as the Peterhof Lapidary Works, to make hard stone carvings. The factory produced items made with precious stones for the tsar and his family. After the outbreak of the Patriotic War of 1812, what had become the Petrodvorets watch factory was reorganised to supply the Russian army with essential equipment, including weapons. The factory also provided the stones for Lenin’s Mausoleum, and the famous red stars which you can see on top of the towers of the Kremlin.

The factory began manufacturing watches in 1949 under the name Zvezda (star) and Pobeda (victory). In 1961, Yuri Gagarin made the first manned flight into outer space in the rocket Vostok 1 and the factory chose to commemorate this by renaming the brand Raketa

All photos are real – you will get exactly what you see here.

The factory has been making watches for more than 60 years.
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