Are all Raketa watches manufactured and assembled at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory?
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory – Raketa is one of the very rare manufacturers producing its own movements from A to Z. Even in Switzerland, watch brands producing their own movement from A to Z – including hair spring and escapement – are very rare! I would say they are no more than 5 or 6, and these famous Swiss brands sell their in-house made watches for astronomic prices. A year ago, we almost decided to do as most watch producers do: close the factory, buy movements from ETA, or Maktime and print “Raketa – made in Russia” on the dial. This is easier and cheaper to do. Eventually we took the risky decision to maintain our factory as it is. We employed new very high qualified engineers whose task is to adapt the production process to modern quality standards and to the new Russian economical environment. We bought new equipment to ease the work done on our old machines that still work perfectly. We also re-opened in collaboration with the “Kotin Engineering Institute of Leningrad” th
