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Chaika 3050-KR: Photos and Videos

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#1 · (Edited)
When I set out to write a piece about the Chaika 3050, the first ever quartz movement produced in the Soviet Union, I did my due diligence by checking past threads on WUS to ensure I wasn't missing any important details. While this isn't a particularly popular model, its importance as the first quartz movement from the USSR does represent an important milestone in Soviet horology, so I wanted to get my facts right.

Well, after discovering this thread, I gave up: https://www.watchuseek.com/f10/chaika-3050-kr-first-soviet-quartz-watch-848468.html. The author, vpn, covers everything. Read up! I cannot think to add anything more.

Except some photos and videos :)

The reason for the video is to properly illustrate how this movement functions. I was quite surprised upon opening the case as I haven't seen a quartz with moving parts before (maybe this is common -- I don't study quartz movements closely). In addition, you can definitely tell this is an early mechanism. In stark contrast to the crisp, immediate "tick" of modern quartz movements, this is more of a slow "blub" from one second to the next. Interesting to see in action.

The paperwork is also curious. I cannot read Cyrillic, but the papers appear to depict a basic rendering of how the quartz mechanism works. I can't imagine any mechanical watches offering a similar explanation on the receipt. This was pretty advanced stuff!

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#2 · (Edited)
Great watch. I have one (in much less pristine condition than yours). I also have what I think might be the Raketa with the same movement and 'prismatic' glass referred to in vpn's thread (his photo is no longer available).

Something interesting I noticed about both of these, when you pull the crown out to hack, the second hand stops, but listen closely and the mechanism is still ticking, so I imagine a gear driving the hand is disengaged while the motor is still running. On other quartz I have when you hack, you hear nothing, so I imagine the motor completely stops.

As far as so many moving parts, I think that ask these parts exist in modern quartz, but they have long been miniaturised and encased in plastic units out of sight when you view the mechanism.



Sorry about the photo quality, the tapatalk app seems to be downgrading them for some reason

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As far as so many moving parts, I think that ask these parts exist in modern quartz, but they have long been miniaturised and encased in plastic units out of sight when you view the mechanism.
Ah yes -- a ticking second hand would necessarily require moving parts. Duh!

Yours are really great, especially that Raketa example. I love those unusual crystals, and the condition of yours appears flawless. Yes, the Raketa should also be powered by a caliber 3050, but perhaps there were some minor revisions for Petrodvorets, I don't know.

Thanks for sharing!
 
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Well done, mroatman, thanks for your due dilligence. vpn's thread is hard to beat. That paperwork is wild.

I do have one other nit to pick, though. Despite the absolutely stunning condition of your chaika I believe it has the second generation movement, identified by the plastic oscillator. vpn shows a first generation example that was evidently too good to manufacture cheaply enough to get to market and so was made in only small numbers and is extremely rare.
 
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I do have one other nit to pick, though. Despite the absolutely stunning condition of your chaika I believe it has the second generation movement, identified by the plastic oscillator. vpn shows a first generation example that was evidently too good to manufacture cheaply enough to get to market and so was made in only small numbers and is extremely rare.
Ah yes, good eye. I hadn't noticed. So, I wouldn't actually have the first of the first Soviet quartz movement -- more like the second of the first :)
 
#12 ·
Well done, mroatman, thanks for your due dilligence. vpn's thread is hard to beat. That paperwork is wild.

I do have one little nit to pick, though. Despite the stunning condition of your chaika I believe it has the second generation movement, identified by the plastic oscillator. vpn shows a first generation example that was evidently too good to manufacture cheaply enough to get to market and so was made in only small numbers and is extremely rare.
 
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Two Chaika Resonators from my collection,both from the original 1977 batch,first one dated August 77 second one dated April 77 on the ceramic coated Oscillator,I also have a Resonator from the second generation released from 78-83 with a plastic coated oscillator.

As you can see,the second watch has a different coloured face,but changes colour when light is from a different direction,much like the photo of Oliverb's watch on this thread,is his watch from the first generation like mine?..I think this might raise more questions than answers.
 
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First time I see this watch.
Stunning design and in great conditions!

Designers were much more imaginative than nowadays... even in USSR

When I set out to write a piece about the Chaika 3050, the first ever quartz movement produced in the Soviet Union, I did my due diligence by checking past threads on WUS to ensure I wasn't missing any important details. While this isn't a particularly popular model, its importance as the first quartz movement from the USSR does represent an important milestone in Soviet horology, so I wanted to get my facts right.

Well, after discovering this thread, I gave up: https://www.watchuseek.com/f10/chaika-3050-kr-first-soviet-quartz-watch-848468.html. The author, vpn, covers everything. Read up! I cannot think to add anything more.

Except some photos and videos :)

The reason for the video is to properly illustrate how this movement functions. I was quite surprised upon opening the case as I haven't seen a quartz with moving parts before (maybe this is common -- I don't study quartz movements closely). In addition, you can definitely tell this is an early mechanism. In stark contrast to the crisp, immediate "tick" of modern quartz movements, this is more of a slow "blub" from one second to the next. Interesting to see in action.

The paperwork is also curious. I cannot read Cyrillic, but the papers appear to depict a basic rendering of how the quartz mechanism works. I can't imagine any mechanical watches offering a similar explanation on the receipt. This was pretty advanced stuff!

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