Chascomm thinks the Olympic dials may be dodgy. But I only paid $2.25 (that's £1.37) and even with $10 postage its cheap. And it works and has a nice Italian leather strap. :-d
woww, nice watch Marrick, is curious about the nationality of the Cornavin brand, I thougth that was a swiss brand, because that is a lake or river I cant remenber now in switzerland called Cornavin :think::think::think:
The Cornavin company was founded in Geneva, Switzerland back in the 1920s. They made a wide variety of watches of various grades. In the 1970s, they started outsourcing; movements from Russia, dials from Taiwan, cases and assembly in Hong Kong etc, etc. By the end of that decade they were sourcing complete watches from the Soviet Union, mostly from the Petrodvorets Watch Factory (makers of Raketa). Your watch is an example of this, and apart from the dial markings is identical to Raketa-branded watches. Many Cornavin-Raketas seem to have been sold within the USSR, although they were obviously intended as an export product.
If anything, this ZIM-built Pobeda movement is a fair bit older than the rest of the watch; during the Moscow Olympic period, ZIM would have stopped putting Geneva stripes on the movement, and used extensively automated manufacture, ending up with what a French writer called "une version plus récente du calibre Pobeda à la finition beaucoup plus sommaire"
As far as I know, ZIM never incorporated shockproofing in their Pobeda-type movements (with sub-dial second at six).
Interesting - thanks for the link. You are probably right. But its a pretty dial notwithstanding the iffy printing - and I'm happy with the price I paid.:-d
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