Les montres Raketa n’ont pas de répétition minute ou de tourbillon. Nous créons des montres qui remplissent une seule fonction, mais la remplissent bien : donner l’heure. Nous suivons le principe de design soviétique selon lequel plus un objet est compliqué, plus il est fragile. C’est pourquoi nos montres possèdent un mécanisme très simple, mais très robuste, qui a été rodé, amélioré et simplifié au cours des soixante dernières années.
Durant la période soviétique, Raketa a produit des montres pour l’armée de terre, l’aviation et la marine, institutions pour lesquelles robustesse et fiabilité étaient primordiales. Nous avons équipé l’élite des forces soviétiques en créant des montres spéciales pour les pilotes des bombardiers supersoniques, les sous-mariniers et l’infanterie arctique, qui les ont utilisées dans les conditions les plus extrêmes qui puissent exister sur notre planète.
A l’époque de la conquête de l’espace, le programme spatial soviétique avait besoin d’une montre robuste et précise pour les cosmonautes séjournant dans la station MIR. La montre devait également être dotée de fonctions spéciales comme un mouvement 24 heures permettant aux cosmonautes de distinguer le jour de la nuit ou encore comme un système de débrayage du module automatique lors du remontage manuel pour éviter une usure prématurée du mécanisme durant le séjour dans l’espace. C’est ainsi que, dans le prolongement des montres qu’ils produisaient déjà pour les pilotes soviétiques, les ingénieurs de Raketa ont conçu des montres répondant aux standards de production les plus élevés et dont l’héritage continue d’exister dans la collection actuelle.
The Raketa Watch Factory has always been inspired by incredible human technical achievements. It has therefore designed and manufactured a tool watch as testimony to the Lun-class Ekranoplan: a Soviet era hybrid machine - half ship, half plane - unlike anything else in the world. The insert of the Raketa “Ekranoplan” rotating bezel is made from a piece of metal from the Lun-class Ekranoplan, officially given to the Factory by the city of Derbent which is in charge of safeguarding the Ekranoplan.
In the late 1970s, Soviet submarine crews needed a watch. Staying underwater for many months, they needed a watch with a robust 24-hour movement to allow them to distinguish day from night. Additionally, it needed to be a watch with a bi-directional rotor, so that it could more efficiently wind itself in cramped conditions. Given its proximity to the sea, Raketa already had a strong history of making naval watches, and was naturally given the task of creating such a watch. To this day, Raketa continues the tradition of producing specialised watches for submariners.
The Raketa “Sonar” model is a submariner’s watch by design and functionality: it has a Raketa 24 hour automatic movement, luminescent dial and hands and a bi-directional rotor, which submarine crews badly need.
In addition to the Raketa “Sonar” model for the main collection, Raketa has launched a limited edition of 500 pieces — Raketa “Sonar Kashalot”. The bezel of this watch for submariners is made from titanium of the nuclear powered submarine K-322 “Kashalot”. The metal was obtained during the submarine’s deconstruction at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant and was officially given to the Raketa Watch Factory.
The Raketa 24-hour movement was specially developed in 1970 by the Raketa Watch Factory for the polar explorers of the 16th Soviet Antarctic expedition. Since this freezing continent is in perpetual daylight or darkness during consecutive periods of 6 months, this watch needed not only to be robust but also needed a special 24 hour movement that would allow to tell the time without knowing if it was day or night.
Following its long tradition of making watches for polar explorers, Raketa has developed a model for people who are ready to set out to conquer boundless polar spaces by land and sea. Six lines divide the perimeter of the 24-hour dial into 6 quarters (4 hours each) allowing each crewmember to keep count of his watches/shifts during polar maritime expeditions.
Each Raketa Polar watch has a certificate confirming its technical fitness for use in the harshest natural conditions of polar regions. The certificate is issued within the frame of the “Arctic voluntary certification system”.
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