Pobeda Vintage Analog China Friendship Mens Wrist Watch Mechanical Watch Limited Soviet Watch

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Band Color: Black

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Deployment Clasp

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Original vintage movement + Brand new case and dial.

Watch size: 40x10mm (without crown)

Stainless still back

Mechanical, Manual winding-up

Custom model

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Brand, Seller, or Collection Name	Pobeda
Clasp	Deployment Clasp
Model number	343
Model Year	1980

Product Description

Pobeda China Friendship Mens Wrist Watch This watch has original mechanism and new case. 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 in 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.