Okean 3133 "Not Quite" the Final Edition

Saw this beauty in a store here in Moscow about a month back and "report from the scene of the disturbance".

It is in fact a new version of the Okean (Okeah) 3133 Final Edition chronograph watch and I think it will confuse matters even further. Slightly.

To understand, I recommend consulting my two previous entries on the subject on this blog.

• Okean Final Edition 3133 from my collection; and

• List of Okean Final Edition  owners

Looking at the face you can see it differs both from both the original and the previous known duplicate version (such as mine - which are identical in everything but the box and paperwork):

• different stopwatch hand - barbed or winged like on Shturmanskies;
• different small register hands;
• different hour and minute hands with different lume - white -- also. 

The rest seems as before.

 Compare with my watch (duplicate):

 However when you see the back...

...you realize that the back is identical to the final edition, also the same strap.

Here's mine again for comparison.

There are two possible explanations. 

One is that it is a duplicate edition, or second run, watch but with those differences in front because either (i) Volmax has run out of original Final Edition parts; or (ii) has started using different hands etc. to differentiate from the Final Edition after much criticism. The other explanation is that it is something from the third run of watches (triplicates).

I feel the former is closer to the truth, as I was warned in the store that, if I wanted to buy it, I should do it now as they were running out of them. And in the store itself there was, like, only one this watch, I think.

More photos after the jump.

Curiosity 3133

In this category titled Curiosity 3133 I am going to collect Internet pictures of some unique, interesting or outright bizarre watches utilizing the Poljot (later MakTime) 3133 movement.

The Poljot (MakTime) 3133 chronograph movement is a storied movement which has been in production since the early 1970s but may have been discontinued now though new watches with the movement are still widely available.

In the 1990s the 1st Moscow Watch Factory and a number of smaller offshoots experimented widely with cases, dials, bezels, overall styles, themes and looks of their 3133 movement watches with varying success -- some had more style than others.

Common themes were aviation, military, space exploration, Party and state leaders.

To start with, here are pictures of three interesting 3133 movement watches.

Poljot 3133 Leninist

Poljot 3133 "Leninist". On the dial it says Leninist, 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On the back it says "To a Delegate of the 26th CPSU Congress" and "By Order of the Central Committee, CPSU", all unprovable of course. Also interesting how the serial number on the back is done up as a mandate number (mandate is a document needed to take part in work of a party congress and vote thereat). Looks like this one was made by Poljot International.

Camel Trophy Poljot 3133

Note the nice hinged lid on back with a display case back underneath.


Brezhnev Poljot 3133

This one is in the same mold as the Leninist above commemorating Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary, CPSU.