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Vostok official page. Vostok Watch Makers, Inc. ( Russian: Восток; literally meaning "East") is a Russian watchmaker based in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia. The company produces mainly rugged military and amfibia mechanical watches. It also makes clocks and watch movements for other watch brands. [2]
Poljot ( Russian: Полёт, literally meaning "flight"), is a brand of Soviet / Russian wristwatches, produced since 1964 by the First Moscow Watch Factory ( Russian: Первый Московский Часовой Завод, ПМЧЗ, Perviy Moskovskiy Chasovoy Zavod ). The flagship brand of the USSR's watch industry, Poljot produced ...
Pobeda ( Russian: Победа, Victory) is a Russian brand of wrist-watches owned by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory "Raketa". The brand name was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, [ 1] when he gave the order that the first watches be ready for the 1st year of Victory celebration. The first prototype came out of the Penza factory by the ...
Amfibia. Amfibia (often spelled "Amphibia" or "Amphibian") is a Soviet watch that in the West would be called a Dive watch. Produced in large quantities for the Soviet and Russian military, these watches gained significant popularity worldwide. The Vostok watch factory created the first Soviet Amphibia watch in 1967.
The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.
Raketa (Russian: Ракета, IPA: [rɐˈkʲɛtə], "Rocket") wristwatches, have been manufactured since 1961 by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Saint Petersburg. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is Russia's oldest factory, founded by Peter the Great in 1721. Raketa watches have been produced for the Red Army, the Soviet Navy, and for North ...
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sekonda .co .uk. Sekonda is a British wristwatch manufacturer. [1] Established in 1966, [2] Sekonda watches were originally produced in the Soviet Union, at the First Moscow Watch Factory in Moscow and the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Leningrad. [3] Many Soviet-era Sekonda watches exported to the West were re-badged Poljot and Raketa watches.