My WUS Threads: Luch 2609

Luch 2609  - my thread on Watchuseek. EDIT DEC 30 2018. SCARFACE3133 IS ME AND TRYING TO GET PASSWORD NOW, THANK YOU.


The thread is about this watch -- Luch 2609 2001 / 2013.

The significance of the watch is in that it is powered by the caliber Luch 2609 -- the only movement designed, developed and put into production (albeit for a very short time) after the dissolution of the USSR.

Unfortunately it is not in production anymore and was made only for a brief time so never got any chance of further improvement and/or modernization. It is rare because so few of them were made, especially compared to the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of other Soviet movements. 

Luch 2609 Wristwatch

Mechanical wristwatch LUCH (read: Looch) 2609, made by Minsk Watch Factory in 2001.

Bluish-greenish face.

 

And

 

Hands with what appears to be a Luch emblem also looks somewhat like Mercedes' three-legged "star".

 

 

 

 

Back and a strap which says Eurotex and Genuine leather which may be true.

129

 Here it is Luch' own 2609 caliber movement, marked: BY 2609 and the Luch emblem. 

 

It is a rare (-ish) movement as it went into production late and wasn't produced for a long time. It was subsequently replaced by the Chinese standard movement (2650) for some time, which incidentally was also designated 2609. And now the Luch factory has no 26 mm caliber movement in its watches, the only mechanical caliber it still has is the small cal. 1801.