Vintage soviet POBEDA watch from 1955 with engraved back – from the Central Committee of Communists Party of USSR!

Description POBEDA mechanical wrist watch – 16 jewels MADE IN USSR!   Legendary Soviet brand trademark POBEDA. Based on a French design, the Pobeda’s simple, 15-jewel movement was cost-effective, reliable, and easy to manufacture and maintain. Full-scale production commenced at the First Moscow Watch Factory. Joseph Stalin chose the name Pobeda (Victory) to celebrate the end of the war.     The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.   Original soviet watch has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.     YEARS 1950s CASE SIZE 41.5x35mm(with crown) THICKNESS 12mm LUG WIDTH 16mm TYPE  Mechanical FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds   Mechanical lever movement Manual winding     Watch been through a recent service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.   Comes with new 16mm Nagata leather strap included. Engraved on the back in ukrainian language: “To comrade Korchevsky G.I. for the best examples of work and achieved success in agriculture in 1955 from the Central Committee of Communist Party and Council of Ministers of Ukrainian Socialist Republic” 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 POBEDA Brand History The brand name Pobeda was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, 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 end of 1945, and the first model for the public came out of the Kirov Watch Factory in March 1946.   Note: 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 • Maslennikov Factory (Завод имени Масленникова): c.1951 to 2004