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Raketa Copernicus

Raketa Copernicus – Russian/Soviet mechaical hand wound watch. Movement Raketa 2609 HA. Sun & Moon hands. Must-have Russian watch.

The 1980s Raketa Copernicus (Copernik) is named in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance-era Polish mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the centre of the universe.

The unique design of the Raketa Copernicus represents the Sun and the Moon in a simplistic but clever way – the hour hand is a golden disc, being the Sun, and the minute hand is a black ring, being the Moon.

Hence this watch is also sometimes known as the ‘Sun and Moon watch’. Once an hour every hour, the hands momentarily overlap and effectively form an ‘eclipse’. This is one of those watches that you glance at not only to tell the time, but just to see if an ‘eclipse’ is imminent. The surface of the dial itself can be described as grainy, and the golden applied hour markers catch the sun’s rays rather nicely indeed.

The Raketa Copernicus, a real Soviet design watch, and worthy of being known as the other Moon Watch!