Slava "Pahonia" watch

POGONYA - "Pogonia" from the Slava Watch Company does not repeat either the Soviet analogue of Western watches for drivers, or its Western "sources". Our "Pogonia" has two time indicators and two mechanisms at once. The first indicator is a traditional quartz dial, made in the style of a clock on a car dashboard, the second is an LED display. Inside the titanium case is a Japanese Miyota GL32 mechanism and an electronic unit, which was developed by order of the Slava Watch Company.

The development of car watches in the 1970s was also carried out in the Soviet Union. The model created in those years at the Integral plant in Minsk was called "Pogonia-M". It refers not only to fast driving. "Pogonia" was the name of the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was well remembered and also considered their own in Belarus, whose lands were historically part of the principality. (The letter "M" apparently stands for "Minsk"). In the 1980s, the Pogonya-M driver's watch was released as a "limited edition", as they call a series with a small number of copies.

These watches were not put into large-scale production. The reason is most likely that the leaders of the Soviet watch industry assessed the market and realized that the fashion had passed. Well, since our serial production of watches at that time was considered to be millions of copies, the leaders of the USSR watch industry could not afford to risk the people's money like that. And they shelved the project.

"In the year of the centenary of the Second Moscow Watch Factory, the Slava Watch Company challenges the world brands that have ever produced driver's watches," says Pavel Grankin, CEO of the Slava Watch Company. "The Slava logo lights up on the LED display in greeting, as if inviting competitors to rethink dogmas."