Raketa Owner Review : Elegant, memorable and historical

Since 2025 is a centered octagonal year, it's time to wear an 8-sided watch. This watch is nicknamed "The Star Wars" or "the Star Wars" in reference, not to the wars waged by the residents of the Moscow palace topped with a red star, but its shape recalls the American film series "Star Wars", some star fighters having a central cockpit window in the shape of an octagon. The watch also has another more common name used for example by Alexander Brodnikovsky, Grobik, the little coffin because the octagonal shape of the glass evoked a glass coffin in front of which everyone went to see a mummy on Red Square and that also at the beginning of the 1980s the USSR was marked by the parade of coffins, those of the first secretaries of the party who often died until the arrival of Gorbachev and then the returns from Afghanistan of all the "loads 200", code name of the coffins of soldiers returning home. The coffins were omnipresent in the consciences. And yet, if you look closely, none of them really have an octagonal shape, they are simple quadrilaterals with right angles, chests, the glass coffin of the mausoleum, it has a flared shape but rectangular and inverted compared to the glass of the watch, the upper part being wider than the lower part. As if the associations of ideas work strangely. It is a dress watch because the octagonal organic glass is rather rare and difficult to change if it is damaged so you have to be careful. The two inserts in the upper and lower parts of the watch are made of black-coated brass ("black chrome" they said at the factory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYc2Rte-fUk), in keeping with the hands. It has survived much less well than the chrome plating of the case. The four screws are perhaps a tribute to Gerald Genta, but depending on the angle from which you look at them, they are not very visible. The dial is textured, silver in color with large indexes and the RAKETA brand in chrome. Depending on the angle, the inscription is displayed in a luminous chrome or a mourning black. The movement is a 2628 N with 19 Jewels with the day/date function which is set by setting the date by pulling the crown while the day must be set by scrolling the hours. In the 1990s, control parts with illustrated dials will give a lighter atmosphere to this somewhat macabre model. It is a classy but serious dress watch that invariably brings to mind the dead by the nickname it has been given. We can attribute to it the song by the group Grajdanskaïa Oborona (Grob for short) "the dead" with a simple and joyful melody, childish in a word and with a serious and deep text, punk on a church organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQAaWGpg_Y ). The dead are not alive, this seems to be a trivial evidence and yet... adjectives: serious, elegant, octagonal, mortal, memorial, historical, worked, accomplished