About the brand
Raketa, a Russian manufacture, is highly valued by collectors for its robust Soviet-era tool and military watches, including pieces made for cosmonauts, polar expeditions, the Red Army, and the Soviet Navy. Launched in 1961 by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in honor of Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight, Raketa is one of the few brands that produces its mechanical movements entirely in-house. Its distinctive 24-hour polar watches and other utilitarian Soviet designs have garnered a cult following, building on a factory lineage that dates back to 1721 in Saint Petersburg.
VIEW BRAND About the watch
The Raketa Perpetual Calendar is a Soviet mechanical watch known for its manual winding movement, 19 jewels, and a dependable timekeeping capability. It features a perpetual calendar complication and varies in size depending on the production year.
- Movement
- Manual wind mechanical movement with 19 jewels, operating at 18,000 beats per hour (2.5 Hz)
- Caliber
- 2628.H
- Case size
- 37mm
- Case thickness
- 12mm
- Complications
- Perpetual Calendar
- Lug width
- 18mm
- Water resistance
- Not specified
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