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...

Poljot 3133 - How to remove stem and crown / youtube video

A video about what it says in the title which may or may not be useful, and it's Pol-YAWT actually.

Except the video recordist doesn't seem to know much about the 3133 but still it could be useful. 

I have some 3133s too -- see page My 3133s -- only two so far but bought new. And personally, I wouldn't work on them myself.

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. 

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.

Strela & Pilot's Jacket

Some pictures of my Strela 3133 (212/500) vs my Avirex Pilot's Jacket

  

Both cost me a small fortune :)

But I feel they complement each other. Considering that Sturmanskie means Flight Navigator's (watch). Except I might need a brown strap. But maybe not -- just a pair of black shoes. 

Hi!

This watch is powered by the famous (if not to say notorious) Poljot 3133 movement which also happens to be part of my nick so I really had to buy it.

Good luck! (I need it)

Bye-bye, now.

In fact, it is a bye-bye in a very literal sense of the word as these Strelas are mostly out of stock and Volmax is not planning to make any more and would be hard pressed even if it wanted to seeing as the 3133 movement is no longer in production.  

I did a review of this watch in Russian on this forum thread.

http://forum.watch.ru/showthread.php?t=156215. 

But am also planning to do one in English for this blog. Like, Mañana. 

The 3133 heart

More pictures after the jump.