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Navigator's watch, in Russian
"Shturmanskie" was made by special request of the Air Force in 1949.
SHTURMANSKIE watches were designed and manufactured especially for the Air
Force and did not go on sale to the general public. They were given to
pilots together with the graduation diplomas. Unique watch mechanism allows
to synchronize indications of the pilots' chronographs and thus to perform
coordinated joint air actions. It was particularly required in the course of
joint operations of large air force units, numerous crews of strategic
bombers, and transport aircraft. Originally, when a pilot retired, a special
committee decided whether to let him keep the Shturmanskie watch. Yuri
Gagarin took "Shturmanskie" watch with him in the first manned space flight on
April 12, 1961. Later, many Russian cosmonauts flew into space with watches
produced by Poljot. New commemorative model of the SHTURMANSKIE watch -
GAGARIN has been designed for the fortieth anniversary of the first man's
space flight in continuation of tradition of the watch line development.
The basis of all Shturmanskie
timepieces is the famous top quality Poljot 3133 hand-wound movement with
shock resistant balance. The popular 3133 is based on the Swiss Valjoux
7734, thus quality of these watches is identical to those of the big Swiss
brands. All Shturmanskie include a revolving chapter ring calibrated
for 12 hours or 60 minutes and set by the crown at 10 or 9 o'clock. Average
deviation at 20C is +/- 10 seconds per day. |
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