Brand : Raketa ("Rocket")
Petrodvorets Watch Factory* (Leningrad / Saint Petersburg)
Model: Big Zero.
Year: Middle 80'. Mine is an export version probably for Italian market (with red box and original papers).
Caliber: 2609.HA, hand-wound, 19 jewels

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev wore a Big Zero, and on one occasion, when asked by Italian journalists what "perestroika" meant for Russia, he said that Russians wanted to start their lives from zero, and showed them the watch to illustrate his point.
The next day his photographs appeared on the papers with caption like, "The Russians are starting all over again from zero!"

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