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Lo and behold, it was the Poljot Okeah I had purchased a month ago! Even though it arrived on a new mesh strap, I promptly fitted it to a vintage rolled steel beads of rice I had sitting in one of my many watch boxes! What do you think of the match?
That I like.
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Refreshing and interesting. Is 1 crown for winding the chrono and the other for timekeeping?
P.S. bonus points for the telemeter!
I really like these and have been tempted many times.
The beads of rice looks better than a mesh but I think these look great on a grey / green canvas strap.
Enjoy the watch.
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The crown at three is for winding and setting the timeOriginally Posted by Caruso
The crown at nine is for the bezel.
Nice! Bought from Russia or elsewhere?
Cool, so a bit like the Seiko Pogue 6139 in that you can time 2 different things at once?
I was searching for one, and found this beauty on Etsy, offered by a highly-rated seller in Ukraine. It arrived extremely well packaged...I was surprised!
Very nice and I think the bracelet looks good on it. The Okeah is one of my all time favourite watches - I still own both an original and a re-issue:
Lovely! BOR suits it.Lo and behold, it was the Poljot Okeah I had purchased a month ago! Even though it arrived on a new mesh strap, I promptly fitted it to a vintage rolled steel beads of rice I had sitting in one of my many watch boxes! What do you think of the match?
It looks like a new 'limited edition' re-issue but the pushers are distinctly old Soviet
Where was it from?
Here's my reissue with different pushers…
Now I'm on eBay. Just looking...
Heavens, don't tell my wife!
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Be careful - the Okeah is one of Russia's most faked watch! The OP's watch is certainly not original but could be a later 2000s reissue?
Inside is the standard Poljot 3133 manual chronograph, built from the tooling of the old Valjoux 7734.
(internet photo)
Here is the box that came with my Okeah:
Looks great on the BOR bracelet , very nice indeed .
Just looks to be an (internal) rotating bezel, so can be for timing things like on a dive watch, or in this case for tracking a second time zone.
The rotating inner bezel is marked 1 - 12 so clearly for a second time zone, probably useful in a country with 11 time zones. But what is the red scale for? It goes from 1 to 10 1/5, so not a telemetre scale in miles or kilometres and I can't read the word to the left of the 12.
The telemeter (телеметр) scale is in nautical miles - the Okeah was originally a Soviet Navy watch.
Always liked these, beads of rice suits it so well. One day maybe.
A very nice combo. I would be inclined to brush the bracelet back abit to match the watch.
That's just me, as I don't do bling.
Have you any pointers regarding what to look out for?
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Of course, obvious now you've told me - the speed of sound is around 11 nm per minute.
Lots of threads on WUS, inc :https://forums.watchuseek.com/f10/ok...e-4001202.html
The dial is always the biggest giveaway (badly applied lume, subdial colouring, spacings etc) but the lack of a stamped (NOT etched) caseback also used to be a giveaway, although saying that it does look like someone has recently produced/procured a stamp and is knocking out casebacks. At the moment I'd say probably 95% of the vintage Okeans sold on eBay are fake with the ropiest ones coming out of Ukraine.
Here's my biggest tip: if it's under £500 it's definitely fake. If it's over £500 it's probably fake :D
im not keen on the bracelet at all but the watch itself is interesting.
nice. i remember getting on on ebay once for $50 - those were the days
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