Raketa Owner Review : Proud, elegant and chic

2025 is a perfect square, it's forty-five squared and it's also a concentric octagonal number. In short, you have to wear a square or octagonal watch in 2025, when most watches on wrists have a circular profile. So let's stand out. I suggest starting with this square Raketa 2209/913139 with a 19.5 micron gilded brass case. It's a 2209.I "Russia" movement, very thin but unreliable, with 17 jewels, a fairly scratched organic glass. Fitting an analog watch that runs smoothly into a square case is not normal, we can see right away that something is wrong with those who designed such a case. It's stupid, it's nonconformist, it creates four unoccupied corners, the movements are made to fit into round cases, it's a useless waste of metal (it's only gilded brass, but still). In short, to wear such a watch you have to be optimistic at all costs, an optimism from the beginning of the year, an optimism of a lover who wakes up with a smile on his lips ready to climb the most perilous peaks. Someone who would listen in the morning to "Wake up boo" by the Boo Radleys or "l'Alpiniste" by the Cosmo-rock band Elysium from Nizhny Novgorod. This is my personal interpretation, because basically it's a watch from the early or mid-1970s and it's not at all the kind of music of that time, so let's suggest Larisa Mondrous' hit - "Prosnis i poï!" (wake up and sing!) which somewhere comes from the same delirious optimism. We can also see the design as a copy of what Swiss watches could offer, Zenith for example. It is a badly made watch, but beautiful and with impertinent optimism that breathes the sweet bourgeois perfume of the rotting West. Adjectives: absurd, optimistic, impertinent, golden, square, bourgeois