Vintage soviet KOLOS mechanical wristwatch from the 1950s

Description Soviet mechanical Kolos watch – 15 jewels MADE IN USSR!   Manufactured on Chistopolsky Watch Factory “WOSTOK”, USSR.   The company was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This year also marks the creation of the well known Komandirskie (“Commander’s”) watch.     The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.   Original soviet “Kolos” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.   CASE SIZE 39mm x 31.5mm(with crown) THICKNESS 9mm LUG WIDTH 14mm TYPE  Mechanical MOVEMENT 2602 FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds     Watch went through a complete service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.   Comes with Nagata leather strap included This watch ships out from���� Ukraine with tracking number Modes of payment: PayPal Credit Cards (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover)   We guarantee that the item in this ad looks and works as advertised and offer money back guarantee on this. About the watch factory Watch Factory “VOSTOK” – began as the “2nd State Watch Factory” was evacuated during World War 2 to Chistopol in 1941. In 1943 began producing Kirovskie watch – first soviet man’s wrist watch earlier made on 1st Moscow Watch Factory. From 1949 famous “Podeba” watches were made here. From 1962 “Commander’s” watch Vostok were made on the factory. Since 1969 factory was official supplier of Ministry of Defence, all watches produced were branded as “Vostok” Other brands produced: Albatros, Amphibia, Buran, Chaika, General’s, Kama, Kolos, Comandirskie, Mir, Pobeda, Saturn, Sekonda, Sputnik, Svet, Uran, Vostok Kolos / Колос After World War II, the Chistopol Watch Factory focused heavily on wristwatch production. This lead to a proliferation of discrete brands in the 1950s, all powered by Chistopol movements. These brands included Almaz, Chaika, Druzhba, Kama, Kolos, Mir, Pobeda, Raduga, Rubin, Saturn, Sputnik, Uran, Volna, Vostok, and Yantar. The Kolos brand (Колос, referring to cereals in which the flowers are located along the end of the stem, i.e. wheat) was produced in the 1950s and early 1960s. This line of watches was powered by rudimentary 15-jewel caliber 2602 movements and featured a number of unique dial designs, including elegantly embossing and detailed textures. The octagonal cases were also unique and included an unusually-narrow 14mm lug width. It is unclear whether the intended audience for these watches was men or women. The Kolos brand was retired in 1964, when the vast majority of brands from the Chistopol Watch Factory were consolidated under a single trademark: Vostok. Similar watches continued to be produced for a few more years in the 1960s, but only under the Vostok brand. Brand history