Explore Poljot

Poljot’s story runs through aviation, spaceflight, and the practical business of making mechanical watches in quantity. The factory behind the name began in 1930; Poljot, meaning “flight,” became its banner in 1964. That history shows up on the dial: instrument-like scales, Cyrillic lettering, and designs that range from restrained dress watches to chronographs crowded with useful information.

The Strela is central to the story, with slender hands, twin registers, and the hand-wound, column-wheel 3017 beneath the dial. Later chronographs built around the cam-operated 3133 have a different character: generally broader, bolder, and unmistakably of their era. The Okean, associated with naval use, pairs that movement with a rotating inner scale and a distinctly purposeful layout.

There is more here than chronographs. The Sturmanskie name connects the factory’s output to pilots and the Soviet space program, while alarm watches using the hand-wound 2612 offer another kind of mechanical pleasure. Their second crown and separate alarm setting give an otherwise modest-looking watch a surprisingly busy working life.