Watch of the Day: Strela 3133

 Here is my watch of the day today February 22, 2021 - my 3133 Strela Shturmanskie.

I think I did a write-up on the watch in this post but most of the earlier pictures seem to have disappeared.

Watch of the Day - My Strela Shturmanskie 3133

Watch of the Day - My Strela Shturmanskie 3133

Six years in action next month as it is a 2013 watch.

My daily wearer now and has been for some time and likely to be for a long time to come as I have to buy a new mechanical chronograph to replace it on wrist and chances of that happening appear to be slim at the moment.

This watch was catalogued elsewhere on this blog, use the right-hand My Collection column.

Watch of the Day Today

Here is my watch of the day today... and today is the first working day after New Year here in Russia and I am back at work.

A flight navigator's watch aka Shturmanskie will always land him in a good spot.

HoroLex: Часы первого рабочего дня 2019!: Часы первого рабочего дня 2019 - "Штурманские Стрела 3133".

Two Telemeter Scales on My Chronos

Not two different scales, but rather two differently graduated Telemeters scales on a couple of my mechanical chronos.

Here is one - the 2011 Океан Final Edition

The telemeter scale is in red on the outside of the hour marks and it is apparently graduated in nautical miles having about 10 units in total, that is, measuring the distance up to 10 nautical miles or thereabout.

And here is the other - my 2013 Strela 3133 45 mm by Volmax.

Here the scale is in kilometers and has about 19 units.

Basically the telemeter is a device used to measure distances to remote objects.

Per wikipedia,

...the telemeter chronograph is a feature of a wristwatch, i.e. a complication (and the chronograph is itself a complication) which allows the user to approximately measure the distance to an event that can be both seen and heard (e.g. a lightning bolt or a torpedo strike) using the speed of sound. The user starts the chronograph (stopwatch) at the instant the event is seen, and stops timing at the instant the event is heard. The seconds hand will point to the distance measured on a scale, usually around the edge of the face. The scale can be defined in any unit of distance, but miles or kilometers are most practical and commonplace.

It is important to keep in mind different telemeter scales graduation to avoid simple errors.

Strela 3133 mechanical chrono - far the days come by letter box

My 45 mm Volmax Strela 3133 chronograph.


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WOTD: Strela 3133 45 mm Volmax

My Watch of the Day (WOTD) today is my Strela Shturmanskie 3133 45 mm by Volmax.

Took it on a stroll to Moscow's VDNKh.

At the Meat Industry Pavilion.

The Vostok spacecraft.

At the monorail elevated train station upon exit from VDNKh.

A view on Hotel Kosmos.