FACTORY

What date shall we consider the beginning of the Zlatoust Watch Factory history? It can be the winter of 1941, when the ZWF manufactured and shipped its first batch of products to the front. Or it can be the spring of 1930, when the first Soviet watch factory came into operation, after all - it was the First State Watch Factory that was evacuated from Moscow to Ural. It turned out so well that the People's Commissariat of Mortar Armament decided not to return the First State Watch Factory to the capital and to continue producing timepieces in Ural instead under the new name of the Zlatoust Watch Factory. However, it is known that the first Soviet timepieces in Moscow were made after purchasing the turn-key ready American Duber Hampton watch factory, whose equipment had already been operating for 40 years. It means that the ZWF history started in the 19th century…

Primary location: Zlatoust Russia