Slava watches

Slava (Russian Слава to German honor, glory ) or the English spelling Slava is a trademark and part of the company name, which was founded in 1931 Second Moscow Watch Factory.

The brand name was first used in the second half of the 1950s of women's watches. Later, mechanical and quartz clocks, alarm clocks and pocket watches were sold under this brand.

Traditionally, the design in the products of this brand played a minor role, in the foreground was the increase in the production of the watch manufacturer. Until the 1990s, the clocks were still on the typical Soviet design ( eg plastic glasses). Only relatively recently has the shape design is more attention.

History

The Second State Watch Factory was established in 1924 from the merger of Moscow radio - telegraph station and various electromechanical and watchmaking workshops.

The factory initially produced wall clocks, alarm clocks and electric timer. As in the Soviet Union there was a high demand for pocket watches, in 1929 purchased by the USSR, the complete factory facility for the 16 -size work of the Dueber - Hampden Watch Co.. The production of pocket watches produced in these plants type 1 (Russian ТИП 1) ran from October 1930 in the First State Watch Factory (now trademark Poljot ) to. Since the demand by this factory alone could not be covered, the type - 1 was produced in 1935 in the Second State Watch Factory. By 1941, production was expanded to include bags and chess clocks and clocks for motor vehicles.

In October 1941, the factory was evacuated to Tschistopol and converted its production to armaments. The evacuated operating formed the basis for the creation of the watch factory Vostok ( Восток to German East ), in which up to now the mechanical wristwatches series Kommandierskije ( Командирские to German commanders to be prepared Commander ).

The back moved to Moscow factory was called the Second Moscow Watch Factory. In the first decade after the war, men's watches of the brand Salut ( Салют ) Damenarmbanuhren the brand era ( Эра ) and table clocks were made. The watches of the brand Pobeda were known ( Победа to German victory ), which are originally based on the French movement LIP R-26. Design documentation and manufacturing facilities for this were bought by the First Moscow Watch Factory 1937. A further development of this work, called Slava 2602 and 2602 A was prepared by the Second Moscow Watch Factory and sold under the name Pobeda. The pocket watch from 1946 to 1955 made ​​with the caliber Slava 3602 is based on the French plant Cortebert 620

The brand name Slava was first used in the second half of the fifties for women's watches. During the same period, the production of alarm clocks, stopwatches, electro- mechanical clocks and tuning fork watches were taken. In the sixties, men's watches with date and weekday display and chronograph were put into production at the beginning of the seventies was followed by the first Soviet quartz watch.

Company data

In 1958, the brand name Slava was incorporated into the company name. The company currently has the name Московское открытое акционерное общество " Слава " ( Второй часовой завод ). The Second Moscow Watch Factory will, as is evident from the name, performed as a public company. Office of the Company is Moscow. The remaining shares in free float - In 2007, 87.581 % of the shares were owned by the White Sale GmbH ( СЕЙЛ Russian ООО УАЙТ ). Profit before tax amounted to 31.974 million rubles, net of tax 1.609 million rubles. The total amount of reported ( accrued) dividends on preferred shares of the Company amounted to 4,482 rubles.

Former production range

• Mechanical stopwatch works
• Stopwatches
• Slava Slave pointer Stopwatch
• Mechanical Watch Movements
• Quartz Watch Movements
• Watches