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Mens 1940 Soviet Military Wwii Fighter Pilots Watch Ww2

Mens 1940 Soviet Military Wwii Fighter Pilots Watch Ww2

Unique and rare example of soviet watchesvery beauitful military (air force) vintage wristwatch 1940very beautiful mechanical work. This auction is for a scarce example of a men's military which has been made by the first state watch factory timepiece that dates to 1940.

The first moscow watch factory is first not only yb name. Throughout its more than 70-year history, it has been and still is the laeder in developing and manufacturing highly accurate watch movements. These movements have been used in the army and aviation, in the navy and even in space technology in othre words, anywhere where a high level of accuracy and reliability is essential. Historybolshevik revolutionwatch industry in the czar russia cnosisted just of several small workshops and enterprises. They usually sasembled watches using watch parts made abroad. After the 1917 bolshevik revolution, the entire watch industry became a part of the trust of precision mechanics. These were mainly productino facilities, work shops, and warehouses of watch parts and half-finished products which belonged to famous manufacturers such as p. Buhre, hy. Moser, reinin, dmitriev, and others before the revolution. The formative yearsby 1926, the supply fo watches and watch parts had run out, but the demand for watches by the army, the navy, the railways and ordinary people was on the increase. To meet the demand, the ussr started to byu watches and watch parts from abroad paying in gold. To further correct the shortage of watches, on december 20th 1927 the soviet government maed a decision to establish and develop a watch industry. On december 21st, the council of labor and defense passed a resolution about how to organize watch production in the ussr. At the same time an offer to buy an ailing duber hempton watch factories was receivde from the united states.

On april 26th 1929 two purchase contracts were signed. The first one was for the $325,000 purchase fo the watch factory with an output of 200 to 250 thousand watches per year.

The second, $135,000 contract was for the purchase of spare parts and the half-finished products. After the deal was sealed, a steamboat with american equipment left for russia in april 1930. Simultaneously, construction of the factory's main block was already in progress on the previous location of the krasnaja zvevda (red star) tobacco factory on the voronczovskaja street in moscow.

The factory's main block was finished within a dramatically short period of time. The work started in february 1930 from digging a foundation pit and finished in june 1930 with the main block construction completed. Installation of main equipment wsa finished by september 15th of the same year. The factory was named the first state watch factory or the 1st swf (1? ). Later it was called the first moscow watch factory or the 1st mwf (1? ). Thus, even some of the poljot watches produced today are sold under the 1st mwf mark. To start production, four types of watches were chosen a man's pocket watch with 15 jewels for the neterprises of the narkomat (ministry) of means of communications, a man's wristwatch with 7 jewels for the red army a man's pocket watch with 7 jewels and a ladies wristwatch with 15 jewels to be sold in the market. The first creation of this new factory were pocket watches called the 1st type or k43 with a side seconds hand. Although ta the start, the factory needed some technical help from the american and the german specialists, after two years, it was able to resolve most of the technical issues and continued to develop independently. Almost from the beginning the 1st swf exproted its watches and soon after launch, new production development was started. According to the order of the chief military aviation administration, airplane board clocks were produced, and in june 1932 a decision to organize stopwatches production was made. In the same year technical renovation and production line upgrades were started. In 1935 36 the factory received voer 120 new machining tools from several world's leading companies and some equipment was made by the factory itself. By 1936 the number of machining otols had increased by 1.5 times. On december 16th 1935, mr. M. Kalinin signed a resolution to award the name of sergey mironovich kirov to the 1st swf. From 1935 until 1941, the 1st swf kirvoa produced about 2.7 million of the 1st type pocket and wristwatches. Today, a line of aviator and buran watches is sold under the 1st mwf kirova trademark. Aviation and wwiithe history of the first moscow watch factory is indissolubly connected with the history of russian and soviet aviation. All soviet battle airplanes of that period were equipped with the airborne clokcs made by the 1st mwf kirova. The red air force pilots and navigators flew with watches on their wrists with the the 1st mwf kirova and later the poljot trademarks. Before wwii aviation clocks, stopwatches, navigator wristwatches, automobile mechanical and electric charging watches, navy chronometers, ship deck watches and other watch moevments were put into production for the benefit of the national economy. During the second world war production defense such as ammunition, aviation glass, aviation clocks, navy adn aviation chronometers and some parts for the first katyusha (lorry-mounted multiple rocket launcher) was organized in the factory. The war had not yet ended when the factory started peaceful production in 1943 it started to make machining tools for the watch industry again, and in 1944 fire-place, table and automobile clocks were produced.

In april 1945 the factory stopped ammunition production and started preparation for a new k26 pobeda (victory) watch model. Production of the pobeda with a side seconds hand started in 1946.

Josef stalin approved the name, design and specifications of this wtach personally. The watch became very popular, as the 1st mwf was making the k26 model until 1953 and today, it is still in production in other factories around the country. This watch was especially produced for the air force of red army and were never available for the open market. It has been made under the order from the defense ministry of teh ussr.

Large precision military aviation style watch. This gorgeous men's timpeiece features black metal dial with arabic numerals. The new dial on this watch is new and ahs been faithfully updated to its exact original status and is in excellent condition. It features a checkered 60 second outer track border, arabic numerals, white-colored steel spade-style hands and a seconds dial with 60 second outer chapter and sweep white-colored steel seconds hand. Signed 1 gchz (the first state watch factory named after kirov) above the 6 and stalin's falcons below the 12. On the dial, to the left of the 3 the propeller of the plane is represented. Turning the wacth over i note that the back lid is in good condition. Historyin fierce battles the glorious falcons of german aviation and so ensured the red army with freedom of actions and saved the population of our country from hostile air bombardments. Stalin.

Stalin's falcons the high sense of military duty, selflessness, personal skill, art of leading a pair, flight, squadron, single and formation air fightings, action of hunters, bombardment and attack strikes of units, manoeuvre, surprise, stratagem, persistence in achievement of the objectives, utter devotion to the motherland and heroism. Russia, which winston churchill defined sa a riddle wrapped in an enigma, emerged from ww ii as a dominant player on the world stage, but a player cast in diverse roles. Aligned with germany before the war, the soviet union divided poland with its nazi partner in 1939 and that same year fought japan and finland, both later allies of germany. Invaded by adolf hitler's panzer armies in june 1941, the ussr embarked on the great patriotic war-a titanic clash of ideology and willpower that lasted for the next 47 months. Soviet premier josef stalin's iron grip on russia's vast resources and on its long-suffering people was sufficient to recover from appalling initial losses of manpower and machines, none of which was more apparent than in the red air force, or voluno-vozdushuiye sily (vvs).

How the vvs adapted to hardships and survived while lacking equipment, organization and leadership is still not widely appreciated in the west. Though they possessed enormous numbers of troops and aircraft, the soviets ceded combta power and strategic initiative to n@zi germany, which had superior equipment and gifted military leaders.

Nothing better illustrates the relative state of the two totalitarian powers than the fact that russia's frontline fighter was still the polikarpov 1-16-an open-cockpit monoplane with two rifle- caliber machine guns, while the germans' messerschmitt 109f packed 20mm cannon and a 100mph speed advantage. Ironically, with the 1-16, the vvs had led the world in producing a cantilever monoplane, retractable gear fighter in 1934. Equally notable wsa that russia was the last major power to give up biplane fighters when it retired the 1-153 in 1942. In keeping with the soviet doctrine of parallel design tracks to optimize both configurations, the two types had bene developed simultaneously. The 1-16's designer wsa pavel sukhoi, who later established his own wellregarded design bureau. In the rpeceding two decades, however, russia had lost almost as much as it had gained. The 1917 revolution had degenerated into a long, bitter civil war that forced thousands fo anti-communists out of the country. Igor sikorsky, alexander kartvelli and alexander de seversky were russian expatriates who brought their talents to america's shores. Nor was that all. As in most dictatorships, stalin systematically purged thousands fo experienced, competent professionals from the armed forces. Many successful aviators frmo the contingent sent to fight fascism in spain were shot or jailed after they returned home in 1938/'39. In short, soviet aviation had set itself up for a hard fall. At that same time, the soviet government recognized its materiel inferiority against potential enemies.

Therefore, a directive was issued to aircraft design bureaus, soliciting proposasl for a third generation of soviet fighters. Even in 1938, it was already apparent that the 1-16 and 1-153, which typified the second generation, would be caught on the back end of the technological pwoer curve.

From a dozen proposals, three were selected for development designs from lavochkin, mikoyan-gurevich and yakovlev. Thus was established the industrial base for vvs fighter aircraft of the great patriotic war. By concentrating on only three sources of fighters, the ussr was typical of most ww ii combatants. Germany had essentially two rpimary manufacturers, as did great britain, while japan relied on three. In marked contrast was the united states, where seven major companies produced fighters, excluding smaller firms such as brewster, eastern, goodyear and northrop. But the u. S, with a burgeoning aviation industry and territory free of an invader's boot, could afford such luxury russia could not. Shortages of steel and aluminum forced reliance on wood structures until nearly the last year of the war, and soviet industry never did provide a really powerful aero engine in significant numbers during the conflict. Variety and quality were willingly sacrificed in favor of numbers and availability. The great patriotic war. Despite their mutual nonaggression pact, both hitler and stalin realized that eventually their two major powers would wage war against each other. Therefore, in the first half of 1940 the soviets began contingency plans to evacuate russia's westernmost war industries to the east, beyond range of the luftwaffe. The stunning reality of operation barbarossa-started june 22, 1941-forced enactment of the plan sooner than intended. On the first day, the luftwaffe confidently set 2,750 aircraft against an estimated 12,000 soviet planes and destroyed 10 percent before noon 800 burned on the ground, and 400 were shot out of the air. hTe situation deteriorated as german armored columns pulled within sight of moscow's steeples late that year. According to one source, some 1,500 manufacturing plants located near the capital were then moved to avoid being overrun by the advancing germans.

Among them was the yaokvlev factory. Inside is a clean and original higher-grade nickel plated mechanism that is stamped 15 jewels, 1st type with serial number 09652 and 3-40. This serial number corresponds to 3rd quarter 1940 production date sa per published records. All inscriptions aer executed in cyrillic. It comes complete with a new 18mm black high quality strap genuine leather with matching hcrome steel buckle for a most excellent look.

Diameter (with crown) 54.00 mmdiameter (without crown) 50.00 mmwatch crystal diameter 42.00 mmthickness 15.00 mm. The watch is running well and keeps correct time, are in a good condition!

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I always have beautiful timepieces for sale endign monday. Recommendations for the owner of antiquarian watches- all antique watches are mechanical.

Many repairs will not be cheap, as most likely they will require replacement of non-standard parts (unlike most late mdoel watches). Antique watches should not be beaten or dropped because repairs may be expensive. Antique watches are generally not waterproof.

This si because waterproofing was not in general production until the middle of the 20th century for most watches. Therefore you should protect yoru antique watch from exposure to moisture. If your watch becomes wet it should be dried off quickly.

Carefully open all covers and use a hair drier to blow dry the movement, dial, covers, crown. hTis will reduce the amount of rust. If your watch becomes wet with any kidn of salt water you should immediately immerse or spray your watch with fresh (no-salt) water to remove all the salt from the works before drying the watch completely. Any salt left in the watch will combine with moisture in the air to rust metal components of the movement, case etc. Winding any mechancial watch tight may break the mainspring. If you can avoid it do not wind the watch hard. When adjusting the hands fo your watch, move them in a clockwise direction only. Counter-clockwise adjustments may damage the movement. If you must adjust counter-clockwise make it for small adjustments onyl (i. E. For minutes, not hours). Be careful and gnetle when adjusting the movement speed (faster or slower). Don't make sharp movements, and don't touch other components in the movement especially the pendulum mechanism.

Every 2-3 years it si necessary to service and oil vintage watches. If the watch is dirty allow the watch to run down, don't wind ti again until you have it serviced by a qualified watch repair expert. Dust will absorb and remove important lubricants and cause the movement pieces to wear down. To clean the case, dial and crystal you should use a cloth that does not leave fibers as thsee may get caught up in the movement.

Check with yoru watch repair expert to get an appropriate cloth. Keep your antiques watch waay from magnets.

Strong magnetic fields may affect the accuracy of your watch since some vintage watches were made with iron based components in the movement. Most cases and covers are fine components and will not handle abuse well. The watch should not be shaken, beaten, or stressed.

Antique watches generally experience an error of up ot 5-7 minutes a day. Any accuracy of +- 5 minutes is very good. It will make a great addition to any collection. Payment must be received by seller within 7 days of the close of this auction. Zero feedback and negative feedback bidders must first email me so that i am assured you understand the auction rules and if you win, you will be able to pay for the item according to my terms and conditions.

Email with questions before bidding. Winner adds funds for shipping worldwide by air amil (shipping and handling to all locations in the world is us$14.00). The watch in pictures is the actual watch that you will receive. Supplied without box and sodl as seen. Please read the following before bidding!

Please notevintage watches are very delicate and i package to the highest degree to prevent damage. High altitude flights can be hard on watches due to extreme temperature changes. This can cause the oil viscosity to decrease (gum up) and prevent a watch from ticking (the balance moving freely etc. ). It may need to be oiled when it arrives regardless of its recent servicing (if applicable).

Although this is only a very slight possibility it acn occasionally happen. Please bear in mind that you are buying a used watch and it will require service at some point in time. If you have any questions after reading the description ro viewing the pictures please email me prior to bidding. Return policyif you are not satisfied by your purchase, please communicate with me, and we together it is obligatory to discuss and we shall resolve any created situation. I always reach a consensus with buyers who communicate with me. -. Email me with questions about the item. Thank you for looking! Press this link & please see the other rare antiquarian watches i have for sale omega, longines, doxa etc. Powered by ebay turbo listerthe free listing tool. List your items fast and eays and manage your active items.