Poljot 2612 Powered ZZero Mechanical Wrist Alarm - New Addition to Collection

Here is a new addition to collection as of very recently.

It was chosen to join my collection because it is (i) a mechanical alarm wristwatch (!) and (ii) mysteriously powered by a Poljot 2612 movement !!!

Case is all stainless steel.

Crystal is mineral glass. There is still protective film on the crystal.

ZZero is an Italian watch company that has watches made for it in China, it's still up and running and there is a website, google search finds it.

Back says 19 jewels, movement says 18.. where has one jewel gone?

 Tested it and been wearing since yesterday, so far operates good in all departments.

A few words from this blogger (and drawing on various online sources) on the Poljot 2612 movement.

The Poljot 2612 is a manual wind (mechanical) alarm wristwatch movement.

It may or may not be a copy of the AS 1475 but in any case it is very similar.

Operating Instruction:

Wind watch: use crown at 4 o'clock.

Set time: pull crown at 4 o'clock and set time. If you set the time reverse and pass the alarm time, this will be set reverse simultaneously.

Wind alarm: use crown at 2 o'clock.

Set alarm: pull crown at 2 o'clock and set alarm time. The alarm time can only be set reverse, setting forward is inhibited by a freewheel.

Enable alarm: push crown at 2 o'clock.

Disable alarm: pull crown at 2 o'clock.

Mechanical alarm wristwatches are currently very rare and getting rarer, Swiss movements are few and very expensive and only in luxury watches costing around $10,000 a piece.

Affordable wrist alarm mechanical watches are almost non-existent now since the Poljot 2612 went out of production during 2008-11.

But Poljot 2612 movements can still be found in surprising places in NOS watches as in this one.

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