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Electronika 77

Electronika 77, a Belorussian post-USSR electronic watch.

This one is Electronika 77 and not the Electronika 77A, that is without the "A". But there is no difference function-wise.

It is made by the Minsk Electronika plant.

The Electronika 77 (without the "A") is much rarer than the one with the "A". So it's a rarity of sorts.

The watch is a clone of the 1980s Hong Kong electronic watch called for some reason Montana, known in some parts of the world and maybe still in production but in a much cheaper mainland China version. 

Technical specs [in Russian].

The manual below works with it.

WUS Thread: New LUCH Ice Hockey Worlds Watch

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New LUCH watch to mark (unofficially) the upcoming Ice Hockey Worlds 2014 in Belarus.

Case: stainless steel and chrome-plated brass versions. 

Movement: Miyota 8205 (?)

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Luch 2609 Wristwatch

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

Bluish-greenish face.

 

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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.

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 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. 

Integral ChN-03 Electronic Watch

Here comes an INTEGRAL ChN-03/1.9, an old-school electronic watch from my collection, made by the Kamerton Factory located in a town called Pinsk in Belarus.

 

This one was manufactured as far back as in 2002. Of all the ChH-0Xs, the ChN-03 is the rarest. I have seen it in the flesh only once -- when I was buying it.

Maybe, it is not much to look at and has a usual array of features: normal time mode - seconds, minutes, hours, calendar - month, day, date, year; stopwatch; backlight; 12/24 time display mode; hourly signal, automatic correction; automatic winter-summer time change (can be turned off); and some basic melodies.

Special feature: five (!) daily alarms, independent of one another.  

Video in Russian.

Leader 10 Digital Wristwatch

A Leader 10 old-school digital watch from Belarus... Actually it's from my collection but is made in Belarus by the Kamerton factory located in the city of Pinsk. In fact, it is none other than the Electronika 5-29367 in disguise, i.e. with a new name and on a wrist strap, whereas straightforward Electronikas were mainly attached to bracelets, stainless steel or not so stainless.

There is also a video review available on my channel.

So, Leader 10 (Лидер 10), bought by me for my collection for RUB 400 which is about US$13 in the month of February in 2012 -- almost two years back. 
 

It shows time -- hours, minutes and seconds, date, weekday, has a stopwatch, an alarm, an hourly chime/signal, plays two simple melodies which can also be used to sound the alarm or, somewhat truncated, for the hourly signal. 

Some interesting points about this watch. You can turn off display indication -- you use button one (upper right), press and hold for two seconds -- with the display turned off the watch continues to work, the hourly chime and the alarm are sounded if turned on. This function harkens back to the early days of digital watches when, in fact, you had to press a button to bring up time indication. No Casios or Seikos have anything similar. Apparently this function allows you to conserve some power and make the battery serve longer. As far as I know no-one has yet tested how effective this function is. But it is a thirsty watch; it likes its (electrical) juice and is the fastest to drain the battery of all Electronika watches in my collection, usually in about a year, faster with chimes and alarms on.

Also interesting is that many operating modes and functions in this watch are activated not just by pressing buttons but by pressing and HOLDING them for 2 seconds.

The watch uses a curious method for turning on the hourly signal -- you just press button three (just pressing not holding this time) (lower left) and the indication switches between showing seconds and the date. When the date is shown on the display in normal time mode, the hourly signal is off, but when the seconds are on the display, the hourly signal is on. The hourly signal can just be a beep sequence or an initial fragment of one of the two melodies that the watch can play.

It so happens that the battery has run flat and it's now time for a battery replacement job. The back is a snap-on (pressed) back, you pry it open gently with something, like, a screwdriver or a pocket knife blade.

Under the upper case back there is another flat back which is pressed on by the upper case back to the module and holds it where it should be in the watch. Underneath is some sort of a basic rubber seal. 

The battery is in its place, just move the contact leaf away to get it out or to install a new one, no need to remove the little screw.