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The "First Moscow Watch Factory" named after S.M. Kirov began production 1 October 1930 and in the first month produced fifty pocketwatches.
By the 1980 they were manufacturing nine types of products including mechanical and quartz watches, and three types of special timekeepers - marine chronometers, clock watches and aviation chronometers. At this time the factory employed 7,000 operatives.
Marine chronometer production began in 1949, and fifteen were produced in the first year; all parts were made in the factory with the exception of jewels and mainsprings which were produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Marine chronometer manufacture and performance had to conform to Gosstandard 9816-58 (the equivalent of British Standard criteria). A brass plaque on the box of this chronometer states that it conforms to the Gosstandard. The standard was abolished in 1984.
(Source: Aleksandra Sergeyevich Samsonov, Director of the Factory, private correspondence with David Harries, 1988).
By the 1980 they were manufacturing nine types of products including mechanical and quartz watches, and three types of special timekeepers - marine chronometers, clock watches and aviation chronometers. At this time the factory employed 7,000 operatives.
Marine chronometer production began in 1949, and fifteen were produced in the first year; all parts were made in the factory with the exception of jewels and mainsprings which were produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Marine chronometer manufacture and performance had to conform to Gosstandard 9816-58 (the equivalent of British Standard criteria). A brass plaque on the box of this chronometer states that it conforms to the Gosstandard. The standard was abolished in 1984.
(Source: Aleksandra Sergeyevich Samsonov, Director of the Factory, private correspondence with David Harries, 1988).