Wearing another watch from the Big box of wtf? Despite the face (which was applied by someone with more enthusiasm than skill) I’m pretty sure this is Soviet. I have no idea where this watch came from. I bought it on eBay from an estate sale seller who mostly did high end stuff. And this was like a dog at a cat show.
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Dana W
I love watches, I am also staggeringly poor. So I usually have to go for oddity or utility over horological mastery. Very little in my collection could qualify as a "flex" I tend to wibble on about my...
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It's a Hebrew dial, and a bad one. I can't understand what the first word means, so it's probably nothing meaningful. The second line says 17 jewels. the third line says Jerusalem and the last line is literally anti-shock written in Hebrew.
The font for the letters used instead of numerals is terrible, but it runs from Aleph which is 1 to Yod Bet, which is 12. Hebrew characters are commonly used instead of Arabic numbers in some applications, such as counting the day of the month so it's not surprising seeing it on a watch dial.
It's a Hebrew dial, and a bad one. I can't understand what the first word means, so it's probably nothing meaningful. The second line says 17 jewels. the third line says Jerusalem and the last line is literally anti-shock written in Hebrew.
The font for the letters used instead of numerals is terrible, but it runs from Aleph which is 1 to Yod Bet, which is 12. Hebrew characters are commonly used instead of Arabic numbers in some applications, such as counting the day of the month so it's not surprising seeing it on a watch dial.
It was cheap I wanted a Hebrew dial in my collection. It was the only one I could afford that wasn't on a plastic watch. The guy who sold it had a lot of nice ones. gold watches and such, but all well out of my price range. Every one I found was either utter crap or super expensive, nothing in the middle. The sheer 70's watch vibe made me nab it. the dial is fit so badly I thought it may have come off a different watch.
It's a Hebrew dial, and a bad one. I can't understand what the first word means, so it's probably nothing meaningful. The second line says 17 jewels. the third line says Jerusalem and the last line is literally anti-shock written in Hebrew.
The font for the letters used instead of numerals is terrible, but it runs from Aleph which is 1 to Yod Bet, which is 12. Hebrew characters are commonly used instead of Arabic numbers in some applications, such as counting the day of the month so it's not surprising seeing it on a watch dial.
I originally assumed it was some spelling of Poljot. Im pretty sure thats what it actually is.