Slawa (watch manufacturer)
| Second Moscow watch factory, Slava
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1924 as Moscow Electro-Mechanical Company (MEMZ) |
| Seat | Moscow , Russia |
| management | Nikolai Ananiev (General Director) |
| Branch | Watch industry |
| Website | www.slava.su |
Slava ( Russian Слава , German glory , honor ) or in the English spelling Slava trademark and is part of the company name in 1931 founded the Second Moscow Watch Factory .
The brand name was first used for women's wristwatches in the second half of the 1950s . Later mechanical and quartz watches , alarm clocks and pocket watches were also sold under this brand .
Traditionally, the design played a subordinate role in the products of this brand, the focus was on increasing the production of the watch manufacturer. Until the 1990s, the watches still had the typical Soviet design (e.g. plastic glasses). It is only recently that more attention has been paid to design.
history
The Second State Clock Factory was created in 1924 from the amalgamation of the Moscow radio telegraph plant and various electromechanical and clockmaker workshops.
The factory initially made wall clocks, alarm clocks, and electric timepieces. Since there was a high demand for pocket watches in the Soviet Union, the complete factory equipment for the 16-size movement of the Dueber-Hampden Watch Co. was bought by the USSR in 1929 . The production of the pocket watches type-1 ( Russian ТИП 1 ) manufactured on these machines began in October 1930 in the First State Watch Factory (today's Poljot trademark ). Since the demand could not be covered by this movement alone, the Type-1 was also manufactured in the Second State Watch Factory from 1935 . By 1941, production was expanded to include pocket and chess watches as well as on-board clocks for motor vehicles.
In October 1941 the factory was evacuated to Chistopol and production switched to armaments. The evacuated operation formed the basis for the establishment of the watch factory Wostok ( Восток , German east ), in which the mechanical wristwatches of the Kommandierskije series ( Командирские , German for commanders , commanders ) are manufactured to this day.
The factory relocated back to Moscow was named Second Moscow Watch Factory . In the first decade after the war, men's wristwatches from the Salut brand ( Салют ), women's wristwatches from the Ära brand ( Эра ) and table clocks were produced. The wristwatches of the Pobeda brand ( Победа , German Sieg ), which are originally based on the French LIP R-26 movement, became known. Design documents and production systems for this movement were purchased by the First Moscow Watch Factory in 1937. A further development of this movement with the designation Slawa 2602 or 2602 A was manufactured by the Second Moscow Watch Factory and sold under the name Pobeda . The pocket watch with the caliber Slawa 3602, manufactured from 1946 to 1955, is based on the French Cortebert 620 movement.
The brand name Slawa was first used for women's watches in the second half of the 1950s. During the same period, the production of alarm clocks, stopwatches, electro-mechanical clocks and tuning fork wristwatches was started. In the sixties men's wristwatches with date and weekday displays as well as chronographs were put into production, at the beginning of the seventies the first Soviet quartz watch followed.
Company data
In 1958 the brand name Slawa was taken over into the company name. The company is currently called Московское открытое акционерное общество "Слава" (Второй часовой завод) . As the name suggests, the Second Moscow Watch Factory is run as a joint stock company. The company is based in Moscow . In 2007, 87.581% of the shares were owned by White Sale GmbH ( Russian ООО УАЙТ - СЕЙЛ ), the remaining shares were in free float. Profit before tax was 31.974 million rubles , after tax 1.609 million rubles. The total amount of reported (accrued) dividends on preferred shares of the company was 4,482 rubles.
Former production range
- Mechanical stopwatch movements
- Stopwatches
- Slawa split second stopwatch
- Mechanical wrist watch movements
- Quartz wrist watch movements
- Wrist watches
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report of the Supervisory Board 2008 (Russian accessed on February 14, 2010)
