![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jewelers outside the USSR selling those watches did often provide their own individual boxes and packaging. I am not exactly sure when they switched the watches sold in the USSR from card board boxes to plastic. In the 70's and later small black-marble colored plastic boxes where used. Molnija watches where sold in the 50's and 60's in nicely made card board boxes. ![]() They changed as well the movements and you can not easily mix spare parts from different Molnija generations but overall the changes made to the movements where minor. The Molnija factory produced just one style in the early years but over time they came up with many different cases and dials. Even a communist society had a demand for more individual and different pocket watches and they changed them externally. All Molnija watches produced just after 1947 until the mid 1950's looked like this. "The Order of the Patriotic War, also known as the War Order of the USSR, was awarded to fighters in the Red Army, the Soviet Navy and members of the NKVD and partisan units from 1942 for "heroic deeds in the Great Patriotic War" (Soviet name for the German -Soviet War).A gallery of pictures and information about mechanical wristwatches/pocket watches. Russian mechanical pocket watch with Molnija 3602 movement. Pocket watch MOLNIJA 3602 - Order of the 2nd World War - II WW - Russian watch Order of the Great Patriotic War. ( opens by pressing on the crown )Ĭomes with nice watch chain, original little plastic box and certificate. Metal case with a diameter of 50mm, 16mm height, plexiglass and spring lid. Molnija caliber 3602 with 18 jewels, lever escapement, 18,000 halfrotations/hour and small second at "9". : "flash") pocket watch with manual winding movement was produced in the now longtime closed watch factory Tscheljabinsky. Rarity - Molnija pocket watches from original factory stocks- Made in 2002, new and unused. ![]()
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