Molnija wolves soviet collectible pocket watch made in ussr 1980s. vm253
Quality mark ON FACE.
Watch and clockmaker based in Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Molnija (Молния) is the Russian word for lightning. ABL1
History
Molnija
(Chelyabinsk Watch
Factory)
Brands:
- Molnija
- Ural
- Iskra
- Crystal
Brands:
- Molnija
- Ural
- Iskra
- Crystal
The factory was established on November 17, 1941. The Molnija clock and watch factory was opened on November 17, 1947. The company's main customer was then the Soviet Union Department of Defense, providing them with wrist watches, pocket watches and table clocks. Unique clocks were also produced specifically for use in Soviet tanks, fighter aircraft, submarines and, eventually, spacecraft.
Today
Molnija's main product is mechanical pocket watches with military, religious and historical motifs. About 80% of the work on most of the watches is done by hand. Some Molnija movements are used in oversized men's wristwatches.
The company ceased production in October 2007. However, new Molnija pocket watches are still available on the market (presumably old stock) The future of “Molniya” is a big question, but no one in Russia produces the same mechanical pocket watches any more.
Today
Molnija's main product is mechanical pocket watches with military, religious and historical motifs. About 80% of the work on most of the watches is done by hand. Some Molnija movements are used in oversized men's wristwatches.
The company ceased production in October 2007. However, new Molnija pocket watches are still available on the market (presumably old stock) The future of “Molniya” is a big question, but no one in Russia produces the same mechanical pocket watches any more.
Quality mark
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.
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.[3]
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.
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).[3]
After dissolution of the Soviet Union Russian government introduced its own sign for certification of quality known as Rostest mark (or R mark).
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.[3]
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.
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).[3]
After dissolution of the Soviet Union Russian government introduced its own sign for certification of quality known as Rostest mark (or R mark).