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supafuzz [comrade/them]

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  • Caliber 2209 is a Soviet stunner

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  • I don't know what their current status is vis a vis the party. The Tianjin watch factory for sure started as a state enterprise in the 50s. Sea-gulls from the 80s and 90s (ST5, ST7) were still definitely in the People's Watch territory, at the higher end. Of the modern movements, the ST19 chronograph movement is a direct descendant of the movements Tianjin made for the People's Liberation Army Air Force in the '60s.

    The Tongji standard movements are true people's watch movements. You can get new old stock Shanghai 7120 watches for peanuts on aliex, and bare movements for even less. Merkur is an interesting aliex brand making new, vintage-inspired watches with those traditional movements in them too.

  • Raketa Antimagnetic

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  • being 10 years off trend is pretty standard for Soviet watches haha

  • Caliber 2209 is a Soviet stunner

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  • I'm a big Sea-gull head. The ST19 is beautiful. ST25 skeletonized movements are fun/hypnotizing. The ST2130 (ETA 2824-2 clone) has a 4 hz sweep and outstanding timekeeping stability.

    I also have a soft spot for the 7120 / Tongji Chinese Standard movement, the first one I ever took apart. Very much like Soviet movements, designed to be good, reliable, and produced in quantities of millions.

    For Soviet/Russian movements, shout out to the Slava 2427 with day and date, and to the Vostok 2431 with a 24-hour hour hand.

  • Soon to be my new daily!

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  • 100% true on the Ukrainian sellers. It's very difficult to find a good Luch 2209 (like the one on the right), Raketa Kopernik, Raketa Big Zero, etc. There are some good sellers though. vintage_ua_watches has been pretty consistent for me.

    It's hard to complain too much for the prices, I guess - we're not talking about vintage Omega or Rolex here. But I like to aim for originality when I can.

    The gold dial Raketa (on the left) says "made in Russia" on it, not CCCP. So at the very least, the dial isn't original. I've had it open for regulation and the movement looks about right though. It's pretty good work so I've decided to live with it, original dials on that model tend to have aged poorly. (EDIT: ha, it might be original but post-'91, it does have the little triangular nick above 12 that real Raketa dials tend to have.)

    As far as I know the others are pretty good :) That's actually what the 12 hour index on the Luch is supposed to look like, 99% of the ones on Ebay are extremely crappy redials.

  • Soon to be my new daily!

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  • I'll try to remember to post a pic when it finally gets here. The wait is just beginning for me. In the meantime, my Luch, Slava, and Raketa happened to be on the bench.

    Where I live there's barely a watch market at all, definitely no vintage Soviet. All my USSR watches have come from Ebay via Ukraine. Which... I've had some good and bad luck, in terms of function and originality. You have to be really careful and compare the details to a reference, especially with the more famous/popular pieces. Look at the Raketa and see if you can spot what I missed during purchase, lol.

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  • Speaking of aliex movements, the Sea-gull ST3600 is a copy of the ETA 6497 pocket watch movements that students at Swiss watchmaking schools learn on. Another good choice, they're bigger and have a little more elbow room than a standard wristwatch movement and there are a ton of videos on YT about working on them.

  • Soon to be my new daily!

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  • I've been using an old, cheap Shanghai 7120 from AliExpress to practice watchmaking skills with. They're mostly new old stock so the parts can be assumed to be good condition, but they'll need oiling/service, so they're good candidates for practice. If it isn't running well after you put it back together, it's more likely to be your fault rather than wear or damage to a vintage movement that can be hard to diagnose as an amateur. Wide availability of parts, too.

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  • That's a sweet piece, I dig the lugs on Rodinas

    I have a Raketa 2610 Antimagnetic on the way to join my growing little collection of Soviet watches (Vostok, Raketa, Slava, Luch) and I'm real psyched about it. I need a Poljot or something else from First Moscow to round things out.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • wow, still not a good zionist but improving

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • 3 first class upgrades with lounge privileges

  • I Should Be Able To Mute America

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  • I keep a US number on a voip service despite not having lived there in years. I just turned SMS off on the number until after the election. I can't mute the US 100% but I can at least turn off the

    -hounding

  • With Sinwar Dead, Biden Reveals U.S. Role

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers

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  • posting a martyr'd heroes badass edc

    I wish they had shown the front of his g-shock to identify the model, I have a "death to America" watch collection of pieces related to enemies of the US state and that would be a perfect fit

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  • no idea what you're specifically talking about but Boric is a crappy succdem at best, you don't have to hand it to him RE: anything at all

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  • it was the ex-pres and that was in feb. so like a million years ago

  • Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel

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  • has any country ever been such a paypig for its own colonization?

  • GOLDENEYE | Tank Chase

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  • not a frame of cgi in sight

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  • the MIC used to be able to produce something when it came down to it, and that is pretty clearly just not the case anymore. not in the scale or at the cost required for fighting peers

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    Who the hell is impressed by this

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    Zionists are Crybabies

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    Erik Hall - Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich)

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    Southby bros boo AI boosterist bullshit

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    Oil embargo 2.0?

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    Goooood system

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    The internet is already over

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