Raketa Owner Review : Symbolic, symmetrical and classy

This watch from the 1970s presents well, the dauphine hands, the indexes and only two stylized numbers 12-6. The 12 looks like an Omega and the 6 like a Delta. The brand is Latin letters and the movement 2609A (Baltika from 1964) and its 21 jewels is marked in English for export. There are twelve hours on the watch dial like twelve months in the year. This watch obviously makes one think of 12/06 or 06/12, depending on how one sees things, depending on how one represents the world in this first quarter of the 21st century. June 12 and December 6 are two very different holidays, both resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union, one is the day of Russia, a holiday close to the summer solstice and the other the day of the Ukrainian armed forces, close to the winter solstice. Of course, when the watch came out in the 60s or 70s, no one thought that on 12-06-1990 the RFSR would declare its sovereignty and that the following year it would become a holiday. No one thought either about 06-12-1919, which marked the beginning of the winter campaign, the most heroic period in the military history of pre-Soviet Ukraine. Because we must not forget that before the USSR integrated Ukraine, there were several independent Ukrainian states. So what to listen to with this watch? Of course, it depends on whether you see June 12 or December 6. On Russia Day, we listen to all sorts of militaristic pop, so we might as well go back to the roots with "Farewell of Slavyanka". The military march that by sense of fatality calls to go and fight far from the borders in the Balkans for Faith, Love and Good ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rahUPQZuMWc ). If on the contrary it is December 6 that we think of, then we must listen to the song of the new Ukrainian army, the anthem of the armed forces that are celebrated on December 6. It calls to unite the Ukrainian nation under the blue and yellow flag of freedom, and to fight because freedom is not won by lamenting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgdANpB9PnY ). Two military marches, both dating from the 1910s, for two opposing visions of the world and humanity, the pan-Slavism of the empire or on the contrary the nationalism fighting for a nation state. Two opposing visions, like the six and the twelve on this watch dial. The case is made of chrome-plated brass with a clipped steel back on which there is the anti-shock movement symbol. Adjectives: divisive, symbolic, classy, retro, current