No. 3 Poljot 3133 Chronograph!

Finally, another (#3) Poljot 3133 Chrono in the collection!

And not just any Poljot 3133 chrono...

... but one that says on the back, "From Head of Military Counter Intelligence"!

I leave the rest to your imagination ))

I wonder if this watch has a bit of history.... but now let's proceed to the movement.

A Poljot 3133 movement (I wrote a lot about it in some earlier posts, use search) with a proper Poljot stamp (not later MakTime).

But to re-cap, I'll just say that the watch is a chronograph using the Poljot (/MakTime) 3133 movement. 

And a chronograph (not to confuse with chronometer) is basically a watch with a stopwatch (which is a "complication"). 

So, it has a center stopwatch hand, a small seconds hand at 9 o'clock and a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock and also a date at 6 o'clock. The power reserve is very good almost up to 70 hours on full winding. And it is very pleasant and easy to wind. 

Also, there is a quick (one of the quickest) date change mechanisms whereby you rotate the hands backwards from 1:00 to 23:00 o'clock.

Maybe some experts will see something or read something into this movement. To me, it looks OK.

And it works so far (admittedly it's the first day I have had it).

I am a happy bunny this New Year eve!

The rest stones are of course rubies (artificially grown) as per tradition in watch-making and there are 23 of them (23 jewels).

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.

WOTD: Okean 3133 Final Ed

My watch of the day today -- the Okean (Okeah, aka Ocean) 3133 Final Edition by Volmax.

The Ocean goes on the river.

See also the post below - Moscow River Cruise.

WUS Thread: New Arrival: Camel Chronograph 3133

New arrival: Camel chronograph 3133.

WatchUseek thread - a Camel 3133 chronograph ca. 1993 bought! Congrats to emoscambio!

Actually I mentioned the Camel Trophy Poljot 3133 once before on this blog in my post on Curiosity 3133.