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Number ...111510.LS102.50 Item: VINTAGE 1944
RUSSIAN NKVD SPECIAL ORDER LENIN STALIN MILITARY WATCH |
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Description of item: VINTAGE 1944
RUSSIAN NKVD SPECIAL ORDER 15 JEWEL LENIN STALIN MILITARY WATCH WITH BLACK
DIAL THAT HAS THE EMBLEM FOR THE "First Moscow Watch Factory" "NKDV" AT THE
TOP, LUMINOUS RAISED RUSSIAN NUMBERS AT EACH HOUR, LUMINOUS CATHEDRAL HOUR
AND MINUTE HANDS AND SUB SECONDS REGISTER WITH RED HAND. THE NICKEL PLATED
MANUAL WIND MOVEMENT HAS 15 JEWELS AND IS SIGNED: 15 JEWEL, 1944, 53, 03995.
THE THREE PIECE CASE MEASURES 45 MM WITHOUT THE LUGS, 61 MM LUG TO LUG AND
HAS AN ONION CROWN THAT SETS THE TIME AND WINDS THE WATCH. ATTACHED TO THE
WATCH IS A VINTAGE BUND STYLE BACK LEATHER STRAP.
CONDITION IS EXCELLENT
Estimated Retail Replacement Value $
959. 00
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1944 NKVD
USSR SPECIAL ORDER
LENIN STALIN
First Moscow Watch Factory
MILITARY WATCH
45 X 45 W/O LUGS
45 X 61 MM W LUGS
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PROVIDENCE
RUSSIAN
NKVD
1944
MILITARY WATCH
In 1934, the NKVD of the RSFSR was
transformed into an all-union security force, the NKVD of the USSR (which the CPSU leaders
soon became to call "the leading detachment of our party"), and the OGPU was
incorporated into the NKVD as the Main Directorate for State Security; the separate NKVD
of the RSFSR was not resurrected until 1946 (as the MVD of the RSFSR). As a result, the
NKVD also became responsible for all detention facilities (including the forced labor
camps, known as the Gulag) as well as for the regular police.
Since its creation in 1934, the NKVD of the USSR underwent many organizational changes;
between 1938 and 1939 alone, the NKVD's structure changed three times.
On February 3, 1941, the Special Sections of the NKVD responsible for military
counterintelligence (CI) became part of the Army and Navy (RKKA and RKKF, respectively).
The GUGB was separated from the NKVD and renamed the "People's Commissariat for State
Security" (NKGB). After the German invasion, the NKVD and NKGB were reunited on 20
July 1941. The CI sections were returned to the NKVD in January 1942. In April 1943, the
CI sections were again transferred to the People's Commissariats (Narkomat) of Defense and
the Navy, becoming SMERSH (from Smert' Shpionam or "Death to Spies"); at the
same time, the NKVD was again separated from the NKGB.
INSCRIPTIONS IN RUSSIAN
"L E N I N S TA L I N"
"SPECIAL ORDER OF NKVD USSR"
In 1946, the NKVD of the USSR was renamed
as the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), while the NKGB was renamed as the Ministry of
State Security (MGB). According to a 1996 radio documentary by the Russian Service of
Radio Liberty, the MGB was reduced from being a ministry to a committee because Soviet
leaders feared what the MGB might do if the purges were to resume. In 1953, after the
arrest of Lavrenty Beria, the MGB was merged back into the MVD. The police and security
services were finally split in 1954 to become:
The USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), responsible for the criminal police and
correctional facilities.
The USSR Committee for State Security (KGB), responsible for the political police, CI,
intelligence, personal protection (of the leadership), and confidential
communications. s (including the forced labor camps, known as the Gulag)
as well as for the regular police.
Since its creation in 1934, the NKVD of
the USSR underwent many organizational changes; between 1938 and 1939 alone, the NKVD's
structure changed three times.
EMBLEM
"First Moscow Watch Factory"
"NKVD"
On February 3, 1941, the Special Sections of the NKVD responsible for military
counterintelligence (CI) became part of the Army and Navy (RKKA and RKKF, respectively).
The GUGB was separated from the NKVD and renamed the "People's Commissariat for State
Security" (NKGB). After the German invasion, the NKVD and NKGB were reunited on 20
July 1941. The CI sections were returned to the NKVD in January 1942. In April 1943, the
CI sections were again transferred to the People's Commissariats (Narkomat) of Defense and
the Navy, becoming SMERSH (from Smert' Shpionam or "Death to Spies"); at the
same time, the NKVD was again separated from the NKGB.
Petrodvorets
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is the
oldest factory in Russia. Founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary
Works, to make hardstone carvings.
First State Watch Factory
First Moscow Watch Factory produceD many historical
watches used in WWII AND THROUGH OUT THE RUSSIAN SPACE PROGRAM.
Although the history of Poljot begins in 1930, Poljot
actually began in 1927 when the Soviet Department of Labor decided the USSR should have a
watch industry to equip the Red Army soldiers.
Founded in 1930 under orders from Stalin, the First
State Watch Factory was the first Serious Soviet watch and mechanical movement
manufacturer.
GLASS CRYSTAL
(A FEW MINOR BLEMISHES)
RE-LUMED CATHEDRAL
HOUR AND MINUTE HANDS
(EXCELLENT)
RAISED RUSSIAN NUMBERS
9 O'CLOCK
(FANTASTIC)
SUB SECONDS REGISTER
The Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock
Company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton,
Ohio. It moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the USA to
Moscow in order to establish the factory.
Twenty-one former Dueber-Hampden watchmakers, engravers and various other technicians
helped to train the Russian workers in the art of watchmaking as part of the Soviet's
First Five-Year Plan.
The movements of very-early products were stamped
"Dueber-Hampden, Canton, Ohio, USA".
CASE IS AWESOME
In 1935 the factory was named after the murdered Soviet
official Sergei Kirov.
As the Germans closed in on Moscow in 1941, the factory
was hurriedly evacuated to Zlatoust.
By 1943 the Germans were in retreat, and the factory
moved back to Moscow, adopting the "First Moscow Watch
Factory" name.
ORIGINAL ONION CROWN
SETS TIME & WINDS PERFECT
3 PIECE CASE HAS WEAR
BUT IS IN EXCELLENT
OVERALL CONDITION
