SHTURMANSKIE
In 1949 the manufacturing of
Sturmanskie watches was started. They were standard issue to all air force
pilots at the time and were never sold in shops. On 12 April 1961, Gagarin
became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1) and
return. During his historic flight he wore Shturmanskie wristwatch – which thus
became the first watch to travel into Space and demonstrated perfect
functioning in the conditions of zero-gravity.
In 2001 the Volmax Company produced a model to celebrate the
jubilee of Gagarin’s flight. Yuri
Georgiyevich Shargin – a lieutenant colonel in the Russian Space forces – wore
his Gagarin commemorative model in space in 2004 as the flight engineer on the
Soyuz TMA-5 mission to the International Space Station. Shargin was the first Russian military
cosmonaut to board the station and he wore his Sturmanskie Gagarin for the
duration of the 10 day flight. Shargin
had previously flown in space in 1996.
In 2013 "Volmaks" releases
the new quartz range of "Sturmanskie" known by highest quality and
affordable price point.
SHTURMANSKIE OPEN SPACE SERIES
LIMITED EDITION.
March 18, 1965 "Voskhod-2" spaceship was launched from
the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Crew consisting of the captain P.I.Belyaev and
co-pilot A.A.Leonov opened the new chapter in space exploration. At 11:32
Belyaev opened the hatch of the ship. Alexei Leonov was in the space vacuum for
12 minutes and then returned to the airlock chamber. During ship landing due to
failure of on-board navigation systems of Pavel Belyayev had to become the
first in the world to have manually-orientated ship towards the sun and
switched on the brake engine. On Belyayev's wrist there had been specially
manufactured watch in memory of which "Open Space" series was created.
It was created with 2 colors with 250
pieces each, one with Black Dial and one with Gold Dial. Both come with
Stainless Steel casing.
Technical Specifications
Vostok Automatic / Self-Winding
Mechanism
Calibre 2431, 32 ruby jewels, 24
hours, Minutes, seconds with Calendar.
Totally wound watch runs 31 hours
(more or less), Water resistant up to 10 atm, luminous hands and markers Diameter 42 mm, Stainless steel case
with screw in crown and screw-down back
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