Historic cold war watch
I bought it from a collector a few years ago. He had it for 25 years. From his notes: Russian military comparing watch; date “1-64”; 22 jewels, gold plated movement, hand engraved; silver satin finish dial, graduated to 1/5 second; similar to Hamilton mod...
Very nice pocket watch ! The movement is a clone of Ulysse Nardin's Caliber 22 !
Apparently the tools to produce the caliber 22 had been bought by a Frenchman who then sold them to the Russians in the 60's who just produced the caliber as is !! Credit ZEN (Forumamontres: Comment par un tour de passe-passe, un mouvement suisse est pass...
