ACHS - 1 (АЧС - 1) Soviet AirForce Cockpit Clock. Aircraft Chronometre 1984
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:293866 |
Rare and collectible piece of Soviet Watch Industry - АЧС 1 (ACHS-1) Cockpit clock.
Made in USSR
All functions work fine. For this reason, the clock was not serviced. Seals are not opened, you can see it in the photo. The clock has never been repaired
Functions:
Stopwatch, Flight time, Stop-second, The indicator of the upper dial, Phosphor on all dial marksMore than 50 hours on a single charge
The end of the Cold War for Soviet industry meant o...nly one thing - a complete decline. In order not to slow down and not fire people, the Chelyabinsk Watch Factory decided to produce a military watch under a civil code. Tank, aviation watches were produced for a wide customer, for installation in a boat, a machine tool in a factory or a stand in a cabinet. Soviet citizens highly respected the military past and quickly picked up the idea. Soon, the cockpit clock became very popular.
Military cockpit watches were produced at ChChZ - Chistopol Watch Factory. This plant grew from scratch after 2MWF was evacuated to Chistopol during WWII. Later, when the war was over, the original 2MWF was reinstated in Moscow, and ChChZ was formed in Chistopol. Since the factory originally produced watches for the military, subsequent designs turned out to be very reliable and of high quality, all thanks to the high military standards preserved in the production processes. Polishing platinum, stones, and other aspects of wristwatches greatly increased the service life and accuracy of the mechanisms. The quality of the work was also appreciated by the Ministry of Defense, so Vostoks were often manufactured for military orders. Excellent maintainability made this watch popular throughout the USSR. The plant itself abandoned the excess machinery, and in its best years produced only 3-4 calibers. But still, production was quite high at up to 3, 000, 000 pieces per year! Vostok watches were a welcome gift for any Soviet man, from students to military colonels. Many Soviet watch collectors feel there is no collection without an Amphibian or a Komandirskie.
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