If it's within a few seconds a week, that's impressive!

The model you describe was made in the late 70's, and possibly beyond that.

Cheers,
Paul

 

Thanks. I would have guessed 1960s or earlier because of the sub second hand and screwed balance wheel, but I guess one wouldn't necessarily expect the Soviets to worry about being at the forefront of watchmaking technology when they already had a working product that would tell time just fine. Anyhow, it's a cool watch - not incredibly valuable or anything, but nicely styled and still running well. I find the complete lack of any Cyrillic on the exterior of the watch, and the "Made in USSR" printing on the dial in tiny type that can just barely be read without the use of a magnifying glass, placed right underneath the curve in the domed crystal rather amusing. I wonder where such a watch would have originally been sold - I suspect ones intended for sale in the Eastern bloc would not have a dial with English markings, and yet a lot of English-speaking countries had embargos against the USSR.

 

The logo is a stylized rocket - or, "raketa" in Russian.

A subsecond movement can be thinner than a center second movement because you don't have as many wheels stacked in one place.

 

The logo is a stylized rocket - or, "raketa" in Russian.

A subsecond movement can be thinner than a center second movement because you don't have as many wheels stacked in one place.

I am adamant that the Raketa logo represents an anchor escapement and not a rocket!