A Russian Has Landed

[hayday]

I now have my first Russian watch, an old Pobeda dress watch. It's a cute little bugger, measuring in at 34mm. I've already spied about a bajillion other Russians I'd like to strap to my wrist so I better stop looking.

-hayday

[is that my watch]

well we had a quick chat on the link but here a tib-bit of history on them

Based on a French design, the Pobeda's simple, 15-jewel movement was cost-effective, reliable, and easy to manufacture and maintain. Prior to World War II, during a period of rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union, the Soviet government sought international funding and expertise in developing a domestic industry for timepieces. Eventually the French watch manufacturer LIP was chosen; they established a new watch factory in Penza and licensed several movement designs to the new establishment. One design dating from 1908, the R-26 movement, was further developed and renamed the K-26, with significant alterations to the original design. World War II temporarily disrupted these plans, but after the Allied victory, this watch design was quickly finished at Penza, and full-scale production commenced at the First Moscow Watch Factory. Joseph Stalin chose the name Pobeda (Victory) to celebrate the end of the war.

[is that my watch]

another titbit am guessing yours came from here

Maslennikov Factory (Завод имени Масленникова): c.1951 to 2004

[-JP]

those lugs are very interesting

[is that my watch]

those lugs are very interesting

yes they do some different types you have the standard






then the full lug



and then the funky