Rare vintage pocket watch Rocket / Raketa, mark of Soviet quality 1985 inscription on
back side, gold plated au 5 nm164
During the Soviet period, Raketa produced watches for the army, navy,
airforce and space industry: institutions that cared about reliability
and toughness above all else.
This legacy continues to this day in
modern Raketa watches for Russian cosmonauts, pilots, polar explorers
and submariners.
About engravings and inscriptions on the back of old watches :
many collectors love them! because of the historical events that happened then.
For example, in 1985, the first film, "Back to the Future', was released.
State quality mark of the USSR
The State quality mark of the USSR
(Russian: Государственный знак качества СССР,
translit. Gosudarstvennyi znak kachestva SSSR) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967.
Symbol
Quality mark of the USSR with the dimensions and angles
An example of the use: the state quality mark
placed on the front of an AA-60 fire engine
The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word Kachestvo – quality)
stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation for USSR (Russian: СССР, SSSR)
History
It was used to mark consumer, production,
and technical goods to certify that they met quality
standards and, in general,
to increase the effectiveness of the production system in the USSR.
The goods themselves or their packaging were marked,
as was the accompanying documentation, labels or tags.
Rules of its use were defined by GOST, an acronym for "state standard" (gosudarstvennyy standart), section 1.9-67 (April 7, 1967).
The right to use the sign was leased to the enterprises for 2–3 years
based on the examination of the goods by the
State Attestation Commission (Russian: Государственная Атестационная Комиссия, Gosudarstvennaya Atestatsionnaya Komissiya) that should
certify that the goods are of the "higher quality category". That is:
their quality "meets or exceeds the quality of the best international analogs",
parameters of quality are stable,
goods fully satisfy Soviet state standards,
goods are compatible with international standards,
production of goods is economically effective, and
they satisfy the demands of the state economy and the population.
Obtaining the sign allowed the enterprises to increase the state
controlled price for the goods by ten percent.
When the sign was introduced it indeed suggested high quality
of the goods but after some time a lot of Soviet-made goods
were certified for the sign while their quality often remained below expectations of customers.
After dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian
government introduced its own sign for certification
of quality, known as the Rostest mark (or R mark)
(Russian: Государственный знак качества СССР,
translit. Gosudarstvennyi znak kachestva SSSR) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967.
Symbol
Quality mark of the USSR with the dimensions and angles
An example of the use: the state quality mark
placed on the front of an AA-60 fire engine
The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word Kachestvo – quality)
stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation for USSR (Russian: СССР, SSSR)
History
It was used to mark consumer, production,
and technical goods to certify that they met quality
standards and, in general,
to increase the effectiveness of the production system in the USSR.
The goods themselves or their packaging were marked,
as was the accompanying documentation, labels or tags.
Rules of its use were defined by GOST, an acronym for "state standard" (gosudarstvennyy standart), section 1.9-67 (April 7, 1967).
The right to use the sign was leased to the enterprises for 2–3 years
based on the examination of the goods by the
State Attestation Commission (Russian: Государственная Атестационная Комиссия, Gosudarstvennaya Atestatsionnaya Komissiya) that should
certify that the goods are of the "higher quality category". That is:
their quality "meets or exceeds the quality of the best international analogs",
parameters of quality are stable,
goods fully satisfy Soviet state standards,
goods are compatible with international standards,
production of goods is economically effective, and
they satisfy the demands of the state economy and the population.
Obtaining the sign allowed the enterprises to increase the state
controlled price for the goods by ten percent.
When the sign was introduced it indeed suggested high quality
of the goods but after some time a lot of Soviet-made goods
were certified for the sign while their quality often remained below expectations of customers.
After dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian
government introduced its own sign for certification
of quality, known as the Rostest mark (or R mark)