I’ve heard in Ukraine they have massive parts bins and spend their days assembling frankenwatches to sell, some of them I am fine with but I’ve seen awful custom dials.

Spotting on your deluxe, it looks original but is that crown a little longer or is it the 12 o-clock index?

Bueatiful collection though, the one on the left looks factory new

Cheers comrade, I will pick one up

Pretty sure they are known as “the crab” for the lugs, love the utilitarian design, what actually turned me on to soviet watches is they lack arrogance and are more tools than jewellery.

Sick you posting a pic here? Is it running? And were you able to by local? I see loads coming out of Ukraine for a very fair price but import tax and customs bump it up way too much to be a good deal.

I believe 1962/1964.

This model was a fairly short run being the USSRs first foray into an automatic watch.

It even has the original First Moscow Watch Factory logo

Bottom left.

Post pics of your collection when you can

Very sound advice, I bought a faulty Sekonda deluxe 2209 movement to tinker with and have spares on hand for my working 2209 but depending on price AliExpress movements could work great and just to have something to strip and rebuild over and over without fear of loosing jewels, stripping screws.

Back in my teenage ps3 days, my then neighbour’s didn’t set a password and the WiFi was completely open.

http://www.2209watchmovement.com/history

really cool site to find out more on the Soviet watch history

Thats solid reasoning.

I need to invest in a slimmer strap.

Call me a monster but I actually preferred the green 😂🤓

I agree on principal, but in reality it would feel like chatting to tech support or chatgpt.

Besides, bitter sweet, the bitter makes the sweet so much more sweeter.

3 piece safety razor from the 1950s. And soon a watch from 1950 too. Its a wind up watch.

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socialists and Marxists get accused of being deterministic but if we look at history, through the decades capitalism is integrating socialism into it. I think at some point it will simply be socialism. We’re just not there yet, I think that won’t happen until human labor has no value.

A few points: Capitalism hasn’t freely integrated socialist ideas. Each idea has been won through workers’ struggle. Even after the fact, those wins are clawed back by the capitalist class. They will capitulate as a means to defend against revolution—which flows back into your Zizek quote: capitalism’s way of reinventing itself. But capitalism, as a political philosophy, will always maintain a ruling class and an underclass to exploit.

This is why we must continue to struggle, and why we should not see these small capitulations as proof that socialism will evolve naturally from capitalism.

PS: you would probably enjoy Leon Trotsky’s writings. One book he wrote: Fascism, What is it and How to Fight it. Where he takes a principalled and dialectical approach to the subject.

I agree—fascism, as I see it, is capitalism in a death spiral. Capitalist economies aren’t able to offer stability or continuous growth. Once things start hitting the upper end of the bell curve, we will see corporations and the managers of capital (politicians) pulling and pressing all the buttons and levers in a frantic effort to maintain course. This won’t work. As a last-ditch effort, fascism is employed by the ruling class as a means to strong-arm against revolution, as workers see wages become incapable of maintaining pace with inflation.

All this is to say: capitalism is deeply flawed. The corporations would prefer a muted underclass over the revolutionary type we can expect in the coming years. And to repress a revolutionary workforce, fascism will be used.

Update: I had asked HR if I would be working the 8 hours and said I was not used to this length of trial shift. Hr replied in loose language with what I would be doing, which further lead to me believing that I would be working anywhere between 2 to 4 hours.

I brought this up onsite to management nearing the 4 hour mark, showed him the email and he called HR to then confirm verbally that I would need to work the full 8 hours unpaid to get the job.

I pointed out how this was legally grey and left.

Other bits I did not like were: through the online training session I did on their computer. Forced me to agree to fingerprint scanning which luckily I only sign an agreement and never actually had to scan my prints.

Also on the online training, they stipulate that any sign in issues would encure fees to the employee due to admin work, these fees would equate to an hours pay.

HR lead bor the same last name as the company.

The onsite manager made anti communist remarks. Also when I said “nice to meet you John” his reply, "you won’t be saying that later.