How does a mechanical watches work

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Gambar Rangkaian dalam Mesin Vostok seri 2416b

Berikut Adalah Gambar Rangkaian dalam Mesin Vostok seri 2416b biasa di gunakan pada model Vostok Komandirskie, Amphibian,  Kremlyovskie,  Prestige, Breeze, Titanium,  2416B,  VIP, Vostok-Europe.

Tabel Serial Mesin Arloji Vostok

Vostok memproduksi jam mekanik automatic dan manual. Perusahaan Vostok juga memiliki anak-perusahaan bernama “Briolet” yang mengkhususkan diri pada produksi permata ruby-jewels.

Vostok juga memasok mesin jam untuk pabrikan arloji lainnya seperti Aviator, Vostok-Europe, Volmax, Moskow Classic, Sturmanskie,  dan Poljot-International.

Semua movement mekanik nya berosilasi pada 19.800 bph. Tidak termasuk pada presisi kronometer 2409 yang tidak diproduksi untuk sementara waktu, movement kaliber 24mm dari Jam Vostok disajikan dalam tabel di bawah ini:

Service Vostok 2214a / 2414a Movement

Here are a few shots of a recent service I performed on a hand wind 18 jewel 2214 movement from a nice Vostok watch:

The movement is conventional enough but has a few interesting features.
Here’s a shot of the dial side, the date ring is held in place with a substantial plate not the normal piece of tin and when mounted the date ring appears to be mounted on the outside of the movement.

Also note the date wheel indent, a small washer placed in a sprung slot…

 

This shows the depth of the plate:

Another interesting feature is this double 3rd wheel gear which drives the center seconds pinion.

I can only assume it’s made double to stop the stutter on the seconds hands due to the indirect drive.
Also I’ve not see this before an off set center wheel with ‘cannon pinion’ to facilitate hand setting.

The center wheel gear is jeweled at just one end in the winding bridge, arrowed below…

…and on the dial side you can see the other end straight into the main plate…no jewel, not even a bushing…

The wheel to the left (1) is the hand setting intermediate wheel and (2) is the sprung motion works drive wheel for the hour wheel and minute pinion.
Lastly here’s a low level shot of the gear train showing how the center wheel, 3rd wheel and seconds pinion integrate…

Luch Watches

Luch watches single hands,
Latin:

Cyrillic:

Diameter :

Diameter:

Instruction Manual and Paper Guarantee:

Kelengkapan:

Caseback:

in my hand:

How to read watches. Bagaimana cara membaca jam dan menit pada jam ini :

Caseback:

Movement:

Spesification:
The mechanism contains 15 ruby jewels.
Case diameter without crown 36mm (1.42 inches).
Genuine leather watchband with Lug 20mm
Manual winding. 38 working hours on a single winding.


About Luch factory:
Manufactured by Luch factory in Minsk, Belarus. Luch (means “Ray”) factory was founded in 1953, when Belarus was part of the Soviet Union. Soon, the factory became known not only throughout the Soviet Union, but also far beyond its borders. In the 60 years of its existence, Minsk watch factory has established itself as a reliable and stable partner. Currently Minsk watch factory - is a modern automated plant, which employs more than a thousand people, and that is one of the leaders in terms of production in the Eastern Europ. The Quality Management System at the company complies with the international standard ISO 9001. In 2010, the Minsk factory was acquired by the Swiss watchmaker Franck Muller. 

History of Raketa

Raketa (Russian: Paкeтa, English: Rocket) watches have been manufactured since 1962 by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Saint Petersburg. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is Russia's oldest factory, it was founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works to make hardstone carvings. Raketa watches were produced for the Red Army, the Soviet Navy, for North Pole expeditions, as well as for civilians. Official website is http://www.raketa.su

                                                                  My Raketa 24H - KGB White Dial



The origin of the brand
April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin made the first flight in the history of mankind in outer space on the rocket Vostok 1. In honor of Yuri Gagarin the Petrodvorets Watch Factory named its watches "Raketa," or "rocket" in Russian. At the height of the Cold War, however, the name "Raketa" was perceived negatively in the West, as the word was associated with the latest generation of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, the R-16.
Before the Petrodvorets Watch Factory began to produce watches, it produced objects made of precious and semi-precious stones for the Tsar and his family. Later, it began to produce goods for military manufacturers as well as jewels" for the watch industry. In 1949 the factory released the first watches under the names Zvezda ("Звезда", star) and Pobeda ("Победа", victory). The factory's own watches, sold under the brand name Raketa, first appeared in 1961 and the factory also began to manufacture its own movements, like the «Raketa - 2609N». Over the years, the Petrodvorets Watch Factory produced more than two dozen versions Raketa movements. Some were equipped with features such as automatic winding, calendars, 24-hour models for polar explorers, anti-magnetic watches (for use in case of a nuclear attack), as well as watches for the military. Mechanical Raketa watches produced in Petrodvorets were exported to many Eastern Bloc and communist countries and are considered one of the most durable and reliable movements in the world and by the 1980s Raketa was producing 4.5 million watches a year.

The History of Raketa you can see at this film at youtube, click URL at below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Goy2mbijPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNMMSQHKnW4&feature=related

RIA NOVOSTI about Raketa:
http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/feature/123823/

This is Raketa 24H North Pole Expedition running:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87w29Wz7DOE


Awards

• Gold medal at the World Leipzig Fair for the watch «Raketa Record» (1965);
• Gold medal at the World Fair at Leipzig (1966);
• Grand Prix World Exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal (1967);
• Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971).

The Petrodvorets Watchmaking School
In august 2010 The Petrodvorets watch factory relaunched its watchmaker school, the only one left in Russia: The schooling program has been established in collaboration with the Saint Petersberg Technical institute.

Pakema = Raketa

Raketa Logo

 

History of Poljot

Poljot (Russian: Полёт, 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.

History
Founded in 1930 under orders from Stalin, the First State Watch Factory (Russian: Первый Государственный Часовой Завод - 1ГЧЗ) was the first Serious Soviet watch and mechanical movement manufacturer. Via its USA-based trading company Amtorg, the Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company ofBrooklyn, 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. Interestingly, 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.

As the Germans closed in on Moscow in 1941, the factory was hurriedly evacuated to Zlatoust (Russian: Златоу́ст). By
1943 the Germans were in retreat, and the factory moved back to Moscow, adopting the "First Moscow Watch Factory" name (Russian: Первый Московский Часовой Завод - 1МЧЗ).

On December 20th 1927 the Soviet government made a decision to establish a watch industry. In April 1930 construction of the main block of our factory began in the place of the old tobacco factory, and seven months later the factory came into operation in line with the active enterprises in the country. The first 50 pocket watches were made from the details of their own manufacturing for November 7th 1930 - from this moment the count of time began for the First Moscow Watch Factory. 1935 - the year in which the factory was given the name Sergei Mironovich Kirov - was crucial in the history of the factory. The reconstruction of the enterprise began. The production of pocket watches rose to 450 thousand. In addition, the manufacturing of special clocks for cars and airplanes was mastered. In 1955 the annual production of watches at the factory reached 1 million 100 thousand. The introduction of new equipment and new technological processes allowed the release of new types of watch with complex mechanisms: with a central second hand. Watch models such as 'Moskva', 'Mayak', 'Sportivnie', 'Rodina', 'Kirovskie' appeared. On April 12 1961 Yuriy Alekseevich Gararin took with him into the first space flight in the history of man a watch 'Shturmanskie'. The watch successfully sustained the space trial. The staff of the enterprise maintained close contacts with the cosmonauts: during the time in space our cosmonauts observed the factories devices of time. The name 'Poljot' the industrial firm received in commemoration of space travels. In 1977 marine chronometers and deck clocks from the First Moscow Factory cruised to the North Pole on an atomic-powered vessel 'Arktika' and sustained the ordeal with honor. According to the results of the work in 1991, 1992 and 1993, the factory was awarded International rewards 'For quality'. The First Moscow Watch Factory is the pioneer of watch manufacturing in the USSR. Almost all types of man's mechanical watches in the USSR, that were famous, were developed and produced in our factory.

(1930s' FSWF wristwatch with Dueber-Hampden designed movement)

(Poljot Aviator caliber 3133 chronograph)

PMChZ watches in Space
On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. During his historic flight he wore a Sturmanskie pilots wristwatch (a transliteration of Штурманские which actually means "Navigator"). This watch was not specially commissioned for the flight, they were standard issue to all air force pilots at the time. The success of the mission however lead to the factory being awarded the Poljot (Russian: Полет) name in 1964.
In 1965 cosmonaut Alexei Leonov wore a FMWF Strela (transliteration of СТРЕЛА, which actually means "Arrow") chronograph during his historic first space walk, thus cementing Poljot's place in space history. As with Gagarin's first flight, Leonov's watch was not specially commissioned. The Strela replaced the Shturmanskie as the standard issue pilots watch. In the late 1970s, the Strela itself was replaced by a new breed of chronographs based around the (then new) 3133 movement (a original Russian movement similar in functionality to the Swiss Valjoux 7734, but with higher number of jewels 23 vs 17 and lever movement operating at 21,600 bph vs 18,000 bph). Poljot 3133-based watches continued where their predecessors left off and were taken into space by cosmonauts from Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine. On the wrist of cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, a Poljot 3133-based watch set a space record for the longest space flight in history.

("Gagarin" Sturmanskie)

(Sturmanskie Gagarin Re-Issue 2011)

Current status
During the Soviet era, Soviet watch brands including Poljot, but also Raketa watches, were marketed in the United Kingdom under the brand "Sekonda". Today's Sekonda company, a British distributor of ubiquitous fashion watches, has no connection to any Russian watches. At the turn of the 21st century, the First Moscow Watch Factory began reproducing many of their most famous models as limited edition commemorative pieces. Replicas were made of the famous 1960s Shturmanskie worn by Yuri Gagarin, the 1940s Kirova pilots chronograph, and the 1970s Ocean (Океан) chronograph. All of the replicas became sought-after collectibles.
In late 2003, rumors predicting the demise of the Poljot brand circulated on the Internet. According to the rumors, the First Moscow Watch Factory was to cease producing their own models and become a source of inexpensive movements for other European watch brands. These rumors never came to fruition. Instead, in the late 2000's, the company was bought by the businessman Sergeï Pugachev, becoming one of the companies of his new luxury group, including: Hédiard, and the channel Luxe TV.

(Chronograph Poljot "Blue Angels", caliber 3133)