Where 3133s Can Still Be Found

The Poljot 3133 movement is a manual wind chronograph movement with a long history.

Here it is in one of my 3133 based watches.

For more information about the Poljot 3133 movement you can search this blog for 3133 or just google it.

Watches with the movement, both new and old, are very collectible and getting more so by the day because the movement ceased production in 2011 and also for many other reasons which are maybe the subject for another post.

However, I could not help notice that you can still by new (NOS) watches with the movement... even on Amazon... but only if you are prepared to be content with Moscow Classic branded watches (of which I haven't bought a single one yet, so pass no judgement one way or the other).

Anyway here they are... in my astore even.

POLJOT 3133 BASED WATCHES ON AMAZON


For example, a nice looking R-7 Semerka (Strela looks).

Or a Night Hunter...

Koutouzoff's soviet watches: Fab 5 chrono Shturmanskie

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Poljot 3132?

Poljot 3132 anyone? Not 3133 that is.

A picture posted on a Russian watch forum.

Pic courtesy wulpie, WRU

It clealy says 3132 not 3133 on the heart piece and the font seems to be right. Wonder if anyone has seen it before - the Poljot 3132. Or is there any other way to explain it.

And another watch with 3132 from here.

 Pics courtesy AAG555, WRU

 

Urofa 59 Based Tutima, Hanhart and 1st MWF Chronographs and Their Re-Issues

This photo borrowed from the Internet shows re-issues (replicas? copies?) of the famed Urofa-based chronographs made during WWII by Tutima, Glashuette, and Hanhart and then by the First Moscow Watch Factory after the war. The re-issues utilize the Poljot 3133 chronograph movement which is also a great movement in its own right whose production may have been now discontinued.

                                 

The legal question as to who owns rights to this chrono design (if anybody does) is rather complicated. The difficulty is that both Tutima- and Hanhart making equipment went to the victors as war reparations. The Tutima workshop ended up in Moscow as part of the aforementioned First Moscow Watch Factory where up to 3,000-5,000 such chronographs (1MWF above) were made in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, while Hanhart's equipment went to France, having been in the French zone of occupation.

I believe these 3133-based re-issues (replicas, copies) can still be found on the internet but quality varies, some issues have been reported. 

New 42 mm Strela Re-Issues

Julian Kampmann's Poljot24.de has new 42 mm Strela re-issues.

 New 42 mm Strelas

Their origin is as yet unclear to the uninitiated but the inscription русский механизм generally points in the direction of Juri Levenberg, a Germany-based maker and seller of Russian themed timepieces.

Discussion has been going on WUS for several days now. 

Pictures of the new Strela, borrowed from Poljot24.de

The movement is marked C3133 as opposed to MakTime's earlier designation P3133 but the stamp looks to be that of MakTime. It is claimed the "C" in C3133 stands for Стрела, i.e. Strela.

They look very sharp and probably better than all of the previous re-issues but some moot points are there, especially with certain Russian writings on the dial, the font for Strela etc.

First "real life" photos of the new Strela in this post in Russian on the Russian forum.watch.ru forum.