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Welcome to the Scottish Watches podcast episode 249. You’ve heard us talk about Raketa a bunch of times before on the show and today you’ll get a chance to learn more about this great and historic brand from David Henderson-Stewart of Raketa Watches (@raketawatches). Also joining us today are Dave (@floatlite) and Pietro from The Limited Edition (@thelimitededition.uk).
David Henderson-Stewart is wearing the Raketa Avant-Garde.
Raketa Avant-garde 0279 – Russian art watch – RAKETA
Pietro is wearing a Raketa Russian code.
Raketa Russian Code 0224 – Limited edition – RAKETA 
Dave is wearing his Raketa Big Zero. Raketa Big Zero 0249 – Russian classic watch – RAKETA
Rikki’s vintage Raketa Kopernik. 
Rikki is also wearing a Raketa, the Modern Raketa Copernic. Raketa Copernic 0265 – Russian astronaut watch – RAKETA
Peter the Great establishes the “Imperial Peterhof Factory”. 
Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Gagarin – Wikipedia
Factory produces watches under the new brand “Raketa” in honor of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight. 
Factory cuts the diamonds of the Great Imperial Crown in 1762. 
Lenin’s Mausoleum. 
Factory starts producing precision ruby stones for watch mechanisms in 1938. 
The watch brand “Pobeda” is created by order of the Kremlin in April 1945. 
Beginning of the Factory’s modern reorganization, in 2011. 
What if you install FIVE flywheels onto an engine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M92bfoJZMo
Big Zero:
RAKETA CLASSIC BIG ZERO 0249 ref. W-20-16-10-0249 (thelimitededition.co.uk)
RAKETA CLASSIC BIG ZERO 0219 ref. W-20-16-10-0219 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Raketa Big Zero 0217 – Russian historic watch – RAKETA 
Vintage Big Zero example.
Copernic:
RAKETA COPERNIC 0265 ref. W-05-16-10-0265 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Raketa Copernic 0230 -Russian astronaut watch – RAKETA “Pobeda” watch — first watch ever to go to space. 
The Manufacture will celebrate its 300th anniversary since its foundation by the Emperor Peter the Great. 
Russian Code:
RAKETA RUSSIAN CODE 0276 ref. W-07-20-10-0276 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
RAKETA RUSSIAN CODE 0275 ref. W-07-20-10-0275 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Movement decorations: 
Raketa Big Zero Malevich 0273. RAKETA BIG ZERO MALEVICH 0273 ref. W-20-16-10-0273 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Raketa Leopard 24. RAKETA LEOPARD 24 ref. W-45-17-10-0274 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Raketa Polar 0270 Antarctic Expedition re-edition. RAKETA POLAR 0270 ref. W-09-11-10-0270 (thelimitededition.co.uk) 
Raketa website- https://raketa.com/w/en/shop/watches-raketa/
Raketa collection at The Limited Edition- https://www.thelimitededition.co.uk/search-watches/?search=raketa
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Recent releases from the SW world:
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Got into the horological hobby only a few short years ago; but got, as us Scots like to say, “baw deep” pretty quickly. Thanks to buying a lemon of a Rolex he spent hours researching why his watch wasn’t working and along the way gained an interest in what makes them tick. He now runs the Scottish Watches website and keeps cohort Rick in check on the twice weekly Scottish Watches podcast.
