Very Rare Massive Luch Quartz Electronic-mechanical Transistor Hybrid USSR
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Very Rare Massive Luch Quartz Electronic-mechanical Transistor Hybrid USSR :
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Very Rare Massive Luch Quartz Electronic-mechanical Transistor Hybrid USSR (Soviet, Russian, СССР) men\'s wrist watch Day and date functionCaliber: Luch 3055, Shockproof balance, 18 Jewels
Very Rare Massive Luch Quartz Electronic-mechanical Transistor Hybrid USSR (Soviet, Russian, СССР) wrist watch.Day and date function.Caliber: Luch 3055
Excellent condition! Fully working! See photos. Runs well and keeps time accurately. Really watches look much better than in the photo.
It would be great find for any collector.
CONDITION (10-point scale): 8 from 10
CASE
The chrome case is in excellent condition - see the photos.
On the back cover there are engravings: Quartz Electronic-mechanical and serial number.
DIAL
The blue dial is in excellent condition, marked Luch Quartz and 18 Jewels.
The glass is in very good condition, without scratches or signs.
STRAP
New PU leather strap \"Nagata\" (Spain) as a gift!
MOVEMENT
Electronic-Mechanical quartz movement
Luch 3055
The caliber has some engravings: Luch logo and 3055 (caliber).
DIMENSIONS, WEIGHT, FUNCTIONS
Width
1.57 inch (40.0 mm)
Width with crown
1.63 inch (41.5 mm)
Length
1.73 inch (44.0 mm)
Depth
0.55 inch (14.0 mm)
Crystal
1.22 inch (31.0 mm)
Total weight (with strap)
3.95 oz (112.0 g)
Function
Hours, minute, second, day and date
Country made
USSR
Dimensions of watches
HISTORY
The Luch 3045 was made during the short period in which the Soviet watch companies experimented in the field of electro-mechanical wristwatches, after the previous failed attempts during the \'60s, because of the very high production costs and the inability to industrialize the movements due to the lack of government funds.
Despite repeated failures at making a Soviet electromechanical watch, the development of this kind of movement did not stop through the years, indeed, in the Byelorussian SSR, Luch was perfectly able to develop and produce their own electromechanical movement: the 3045.
The Luch 3045, the first electro-mechanical watch made by the Byelorussian company. Few hundred specimen of this watch were made, due to the high production costs, the lack of demand from customers and the lack of willingness by the Soviet government to fund the project.
The Luch 3045 was a very promising watch. Based on the movement of the Junghans 600 ATO-Chron (electromechanical movement with fixed coil and transistor switching), the management of the Byelorussian company had rather ambitious goals for this watch, that was supposed to be the latest entry of the Soviet Union in the field of electromechanical wristwatches. There were plans to export the 3045 in the West too, representing the "cutting edge" innovation of the Soviet mechanics and electronics industry.
In fact, the Luch 3045 was a quite special watch: it was fine-tuned in order to receive GOST chronometer certification and was the first Soviet high-frequency watch, which ran at 28.800 BPH.
But unlike the Luch management, the Soviet government did not consider the development of the watch a main priority, so, the additional funding required to expand the production lines of the 3045 and to allow a widespread distribution of the product, never arrived, and the amount of 3045s effectively produced didn\'t reach a couple hundred units. The watch was produced in two variants: 10k gold plated case , and a chrome-plated variant with a dark blue dial. During its short life, the 3045 was produced in two versions: the first generation had the bottom closed by an O-ring, while the second generation had an openable battery compartment, making the battery change process easier.
At the end of the 70s, the Soviet government had finally realized that the watch market was undergoing a major and irreversible change due to the increasingly prominent weight of quartz watches, and it finally granted the necessary funds for the development of the first analog and digital Soviet quartz movements, leading to the birth of the Chaika 3050-KR, the Elektronika 3045/3049 and the Elektronika-1.
However, making a quartz movement from scratch, as it had happened in the Russian SFSR with the CRP-3050 project (an acronym for "Crystal Resonator Project", from Russian "Проект Кристалл резонатор"), wasn\'t easy at all, plus it was very expensive.
The Byelorussian company wasn\'t willing to ask the government for the allocation of other funds to make a movement that would hardly have been shared by other factories, since the CRP-3050 was already in production.
So, the Byelorussian engineers had a simple yet effective idea: they could give new life to the old 3045 movement, turning it into a quartz electromechanical one. Inspired by Timex Q-Quartz, the old 3045 movement was partially redesigned in order to accommodate a new electronic module developed by Chaika, with a quartz crystal and an oscillator, which would have adjusted the oscillation of the balance wheel, "correcting" the inaccuracies of the balance wheel.
An extra jewel was added, bringing the count to 18, and in 1981 the first analog quartz watch built in the Byelorussian SSR made its debut: the Luch 3055.
Produced in numerous combinations of dials and cases, the Luch 3055 was far more successful than its predecessor: the greater number of variants, the quartz accuracy and its lower price (although it was still an expensive watch), made the 3055 the first and only electromechanical quartz watch produced in the USSR.
All Antique watches are mechanical. Many repairs will not be cheap, as most likely they will require replacement of non-standard parts (unlike most late model watches).
- Antique watches should not be beaten or dropped - because repairs may be expensive.
- Antique watches are generally NOT waterproof. This is because waterproofing was not in general production until the middle of the 20th century for most watches. Therefore you should protect your antique watch from exposure to moisture.
- If your watch becomes wet it should be dried off quickly. Carefully open all covers and use a hair drier to blow dry the movement, dial, covers, crown. This will reduce the amount of rust.
- If your watch becomes wet with any kind of salt water you should immediately immerse or spray your watch with fresh (no-salt) water to remove all the salt from the works before drying the watch completely. Any salt left in the watch will combine with moisture in the air to rust metal components of the movement, case etc.
- Winding any mechanical watch tight may break the mainspring. If you can avoid it do not wind the watch hard.
- When adjusting the hands of your watch, move them in a clockwise direction only. Counter-clockwise adjustments may damage the movement. It is desirable to adjust the hands of your watch at the same time every day. An automatic or self-winding watch should be worn for at least 8 hours a day. It is a mechanical watch in which the mainspring is wound automatically as a result of natural motion of the wearer\'s arm, to provide energy to run the watch, making manual winding unnecessary.
- If you must adjust counter-clockwise make it for small adjustments only (i.e. for minutes, NOT hours).
- Be careful and gentle when adjusting the movement speed (faster or slower). Don\'t make sharp movements, and don\'t touch other components in the movement especially the pendulum mechanism.
- Every 2-3 years it is necessary to service and oil vintage watches. If the course of your watches is worsening and the accuracy of the reduction in the duration of the clock (autonomy) from one fully wound spring - it need a service.
- IF the watch is dirty - allow the watch to run down, don\'t wind it again until you have it serviced by a qualified watch repair expert. Dust will absorb and remove important lubricants and cause the movement pieces to wear down.
- To clean the case, dial and crystal you should use a cloth that does NOT leave fibers as these may get caught up in the movement. Check with your Watch repair expert to get an appropriate cloth.
- Keep your antiques watch away from magnets. Strong magnetic fields may affect the accuracy of your watch since some vintage watches were made with iron based components in the movement.
- Most Cases and Covers are fine components and will not handle abuse well. The watch should not be shaken, beaten, or stressed.
- Antique watches generally experience an error of up to 5-7 minutes a day. Any accuracy of +- 5 minutes is very good.
- Mechanical watch is not recommended to use for engage in extreme sports, and expose them to excessive vibration loads. Recoil force, which take on the clock, affect their reliability and precision. No matter how perfect was not anti-shock mechanism, there is always the chance of excessive load that details of the mechanism can not survive.
- Watch with calendar. It is not recommended to adjust, the date between 20.00 and 06.00, because at this time involved a mechanism for automatic adjustment date. Translation pointers calendars manually in this position arrows may damage the mechanism. Date changes should be made, relegating pre-clockwise to lower sector of the dial (for example, to position 6 (18.00) hours).
- Chronograph watches. In most cases, these watches contain the \"start/stop\" button and \"reset\" button. It is strongly recommended not to press the \"reset\" if the chronograph is running. Before you use the \"Reset\" button need to stop the chronograph by button \"start/stop\". Using the \"reset\" when running chronograph can damage the mechanism of most models of watches.
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