Old Russian Digital Watches
We had old Russian calculators from collection of Sergei Frolov, now it’s turn for old Russian digital watches from his collection too.
All the calculators were from one same brand - from “ELEKTRONIKA”. Same story is with those watches. They all were produced by this Elektronika company, the only vendor in Soviet Russia for consumer electronics.
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it so oldscoOl and in the same time so mas$Ive
i have one of them, and its still working! soviet electronics build to resist!
yeah, i agree with you. i have old soviet photo camera “smena 8″ and “kiev” and they still work. on the other hand i have changed 2 canon digital photo cameras because they stop to work
That’s Soviet electronics allright. People have critisized them for being severely outdated and uncreative, but their low-tech construction and operation guarantees longer life, offsetting their low quality.
For example, in 1991 US companies were already using switching mode power supplies, which weighed 20x less, cost 5x less, and were 10x smaller, but were unreliable, difficult to repair, and failure sometimes caused catastrophic results to the device. The USSR still used regular transformers for everything.
Fortunetly we still use regular transformers(ac adpaters, etc.) but many high-tech and cool-looking electronics have switched-hence the computer power supply failures. A switched PSU will last ~5 years, while a regular transformer could last more than 50.
You seem to forget the bad efficiency (<50%) with transformer + linear regulator compared to transformerless + switching. Always a trade-off with every technology so you can’t just start eliminating alternatives based on reliability only.
brings back memories :=
sweet!
I used to have a wrist watch and an alarm clock, they were as durable as the AK-47 :).
Did Soviet people really carry those big radio clocks in their wrists or why do you call them watches?
They dangled them from their necks on chains, Flava Flav style.
There’s no way that the Soviets designed these on their own. It really looks like they copied all of the consumer electronics from American and Japanese companies.
Maybe most, but I highly doubt they copied something like this:
http://englishrussia.com/images/old_soviet_watches/8.jpg
That’s clearly Soviet design. I know someone who has a similar model-has like 15 buttons on them-separate one for hours, min, alarm, set, etc. Other countries have engineering practices that REDUCE the amount of buttons-I have a clock with only 2, serving all purposes.
Too bad they stopped production, I really like collecting Soviet electronics-the parts look exotic, extremely easy to repair, tough contruction-many were made from sheet metal, etc.
Now we have crappy Chinese electronics made for the average user-no schematic in the manual, parts are microscopic and disposible, and the exterior looks “cool”-made from cheap colored soft plastic. I hate them so much I just smash them, since they are completely disposble and there is nothing worth salvaging inside.
From what I understand, way back in the 1970’s when these things were built, US and Japanese products were just like these. They had not been cost reduced yet. I know that people on here point out that Russian electronics came with schematics, but I heard that nearly every stereo receiver, television, video records and so on made in either the US or Japan durring that time frame came with schematics. I’m sure I could surg around eBay for some “Vintage” alarm clocks and watches and show you models that looked exactly lie these.
http://englishrussia.com/images/old_soviet_watches/8.jpg
this is not only a watch!! I’ve written a comment about this tool - I haven’t seen an american tool like that. It’s quite a qreat tool!
ha, the one on the eight photo isn’t just a clock - I use few of them even today! (Warsaw, Poland).
It’s a well working tool that has two separate power channels that may be turned on/off at any programmed time any day of week. So you can set up a old radio (without it’s own electronics) to turn on / off at a given hour, make the light in your home turn on at a given time to make your house look like somebody is in…
this is kind of a very good tool and I will use it for long.
once I’ve found smillar tool made by Dutch Philips. It was much worse than the russian one, had much less memory and only a single channel.
Respect for the Russian machine. My parent bought it on the begining of the 90′, so it’s quite a old machine but still successfully working.
Soviet electronic Forever !Chinese sucks
This one was a really cool one, the display was off, one should press a button to chech out the time, wich was displayed on red. I’d like to wear such one nowdays!
Love the one that says in Spanish: “Fabricado en la URSS”
I still have a TV from the eghties and a lot of manuals of old electronics which came with schematics…very useful for the repairing guy.
У меня были такие же часики Байконур! УРРРРРРРРРАА!
I like the pocket watch in the tenth… http://englishrussia.com/images/old_soviet_watches/10.jpg
It’s just.. you look at it, it looks like late 1800’s or something, and then the display gets to you… Creepy, brilliant, great… Russian!
It’s all in spanish, except the days of the week.
Es todo en español, perro no del dia el semaña.
Wow,Great!Thanks for sharing this!Love second on!