Watch Spetsnaz KOSMONAVIGATOR

KOSMONAVIGATOR - a unique watch Spetsnaz "Kosmonavigator" was born thanks to the Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the legendary pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov.

This accessory is designed to determine the place on Earth over which the space crew is currently flying.

The watch dial is divided into 16 sectors according to the number of orbits the station makes around the Earth per day. The watch is marked with different colors of all the continents and oceans. ⠀⠀⠀

A real space watch, created by a Cosmonaut for Cosmonauts. Inside is a Japanese quartz movement Miyota 6M17, a stainless steel case, sapphire glass. Water resistance is 5 ATM.

From the ITAR-TASS report of 03/29/05:
The eleventh expedition to the ISS will take on board a space navigator watch developed by cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov

The Russian-American crew of the 11th expedition to the ISS will take on board a special orbital space navigator watch developed by pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov. The head of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov today presented watches to Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut John Phillips, as well as European astronaut Roberto Vittori, who is flying to the ISS on a visiting mission. "With this wrist device, the astronauts will be able to determine at any time what point on Earth they are above," the inventor, who himself has flown into space five times and spent a total of 145 days in orbit, told an ITAR-TASS correspondent.

An excerpt from an article in the magazine "Behind the Wheel" No. 8, April 2007:
"Vladimir Dzhanibekov's New Time"

A watch from cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov? That's right - readers who participate in our contests have a chance to win this collectible time measuring device. And not only time: Vladimir Dzhanibekov's diverse knowledge and hobbies allowed him to look at wristwatches from a completely different angle. The legendary cosmonaut himself told us about this watch and what it is intended for.

GZR: Vladimir Aleksandrovich, tell us how the idea of ​​creating the "Cosmonavigator" watch came about.

V.A.: If you look at the projection of the trajectory of a spacecraft flying above the Earth, it looks like a sinusoid, and each subsequent turn is shifted relative to the previous one. The orbital period of a spacecraft, that is, the time it takes it to complete a revolution around our planet, is approximately 90 minutes. Based on this data and knowing the initial time, it is possible to calculate over which part of the Earth the spacecraft is at what point in time. The idea of ​​this watch is that by looking at the dial, it would be possible to immediately determine where the spacecraft is now. For this, I came up with a special limb, the sectors of which are painted in different colors, indicating the continents: Europe and Russia - red, Asia - yellow, Africa - black, Australia and New Zealand - green, North America - blue, South America - orange, and the oceans and seas, naturally, are blue. The limb can be set, knowing the initial conditions, and then, during the flight, monitor the location.