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I sell Soviet watches in Paris and about twenty Elektronika 1 have gone through my hands. Buyers always ask the same thing: how do you read it, and how do you set it? So I made two small interactive tools, based on the original factory leaflet.

Tool 1, reading: press А for the time, keep it pressed for the seconds, press Г for the date and day of the week. The red display lights up and goes dark again, as on the watch.

Tool 2, setting: the three recessed buttons (the ones you press with a toothpick so you don't scratch the case), minutes, hours, date, and the seconds reset on the radio time signal. Hold a button and the digits climb, like the real module.

Both work on a phone.

The rest of the article covers the 1972 American Pulsar that inspired it, the Pulsar semiconductor institute in Moscow where it was developed, the two case styles I have handled (cushion and the fluted "Terminator"), and a 1981 passport showing the retail price: 121 roubles, around two thirds of an average monthly wage.

I also say plainly that this is fragile 1970s electronics. It is very hard to repair and it can stop working at any time.

https://sovietinparis.com/en/horloges-montres/elektronika-1-montre-led-sovietique/

If you spot a mistake, tell me and I will correct it. I would also like to hear from anyone who has the other case variants.

I'm a 3133, and I live inside this champagne-dialled Poljot.

My story starts in Switzerland. My ancestor was the Valjoux 7734, a hard-working chronograph calibre. When Valjoux sold its machinery to the First Moscow Watch Factory, I was rebuilt in the Soviet way: more jewels, 23 of them, and a faster heartbeat than my Swiss parent ever had.

I'm stubbornly manual. I don't take energy from a rotor or from your wrist swinging, so every morning someone has to wind me by hand. In return I'll run for about 42 hours, or around 37 if you have my stopwatch going.

Look at the dial and you'll see my name in Cyrillic: **ПОЛЁТ**, which means "flight." **23 камня** is me showing off my jewels. Inside the clasp it reads **Нержавеющая сталь / Сделано в СССР**, "Stainless steel / Made in the USSR," although to be fair, that only speaks for the bracelet.

My case is a cushion shape and I have a rotating inner hour ring, which is very much in the style of the Soviet era. As for my exact birth year, and whether every part of me is the original, I'm keeping that to myself until my owner opens the caseback.

I've ended up on a new wrist in Sydney, next to some ink, and I'm getting wound every morning.

If any 3133 experts out there can read my dial and case for clues about my age, I'm listening.

Hi would anyone be able to tell me more about this watch?
It appears to be a Perestroika mechanical but I can’t find any more information anywhere.