Poljot Fighter Mens Wrist Watch Plane Soviet USSR Russian Watch Rare (Milanese Bracelet)

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You will fall in love with this vintage men's watch. Yellow with a brilliant face, our Poljot Aviator antique watch is sure to be a conversation starter. Purchase for yourself or give as a gift. Our watches are great men's gifts, including retirement gifts, Father's day gifts, Christmas gifts and much more! This is a vintage men's Soviet wristwach "Poljot"- (" Fly"). This is original movement Poljot watch made in USSR era. Case is new. Dial is restored. Made in 1980s at First Moscow Watch Factory. The watch has been fully serviced,cleaned and oiled by a professional watch maker. The watch is working very accurately. Poljot (Russian: Полет, literally meaning "flight"), is a brand of Soviet/Russian wristwatches, produced since 1964 by the First Moscow Watch Factory (Russian: Первый Московский Часовой Завод, ПМЧЗ, Perviy Moskovskiy Chasovoy Zavod). The flagship brand of the USSR's watch industry, Poljot produced numerous historical watches used in many important space missions, including the world's first space watch worn by Yuri Gagarin. Founded in 1930 under orders from Joseph Stalin, the First State Watch Factory (Russian: Первый Государственный Часовой Завод - 1ГЧЗ) was the first large scale Soviet watch and mechanical movement manufacturer. Via its USA-based trading company Amtorg, the Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio. It moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the USA to Moscow in order to establish the factory. Twenty-one former Dueber-Hampden watchmakers, engravers and various other technicians helped to train the Russian workers in the art of watchmaking as part of the Soviet's First Five-Year Plan. The movements of very-early products were still stamped "Dueber-Hampden, Canton, Ohio, USA" (examples of these watches are very collectible today). In 1935 the factory was named after the murdered Soviet official Sergei Kirov.