Rare vintage 1950's USSR, 15 jewel Pobeda ZIM movement, manual wind wristwatch serviced and restored!

This rare, Russian, USSR, Probeda (Victory) men's vintage dress wristwatch would be an excellent and unique addition to your vintage watch collection!!

Manufactured in the 1950's, at the Maslennikov Watch Factory, the gold-plated case measures 30mm across, excluding crown and lugs, and surrounds a beautiful soft yellow dial complimented by gold hour and minute hands, raised gold numbers and markers, black outer chapter, and sub-second dial at 6 o'clock. Please note: The 30 mm case was a fashionable size for men during this era. However, the 1.3" size today is fashionable for ladies' as well.

The 15 jewel, ZIM cal. 2602 manual wind movement has been recently professionally oiled, serviced, and adjusted, sets and winds smoothly, is running strong, and keeping good time.

It has a snap-down back and has been fitted with a gold-capped vintage Speidel flex stainless steel bracelet which suits it perfectly.
Please Note: All of my vintage Soviet watches are serviced and restored by professionals in The Ukraine. Their shops are now, for the most part, shuttered during the conflict there. We hope that peace is restored soon so that the fine Ukraine people will be safe, and that we can, once again, offer their products to you.



STOCK CODE: P- 28

THE HISTORY OF POBEDA WATCHES:

History of the Watch Movement "Pobeda"

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 of 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.

Factories Having Produced under the brand "Pobeda"

Pobeda watches before and after the fall of Soviet Union

During Soviet times

In the Soviet Union, a product brand was not necessarily exclusive to a particular manufacturing site (this changed though in the 60's when each factory got its own brands), and during its lifetime, production of Pobeda watches was shifted between the following plants:

· Penza Watch Factory (Пензенский Часовой Завод): for a few years from 1945

· First Moscow Watch Factory (Первый Московский Часовой Завод): 1946 to 1953

· Petrodvorets Watch Factory (Петродворцовый Часовой Завод): 1946 to nowadays

· Chistopol Watch Factory (Чистопольский часовой завод): 1949 to the c.1950

· Second Moscow Watch Factory (Второй московский часовой завод): 1953 to 1964



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