Raketa Owner Review : Powerful, readable and adventurous

Anti-magnetic watches, meaning those protected against magnetic fields and that are not likely to go out of adjustment depending on the fields to which they are exposed, are very useful in the contemporary world. Designers love to add magnets everywhere in our daily lives; there is a veritable profusion of magnetic fields that we live with and that are harmful to mechanical watches. Anti-magnetic watches, whether modern or vintage, are always my favorite. The 2610 movement is anti-magnetic, derived from the 2609HA. It was housed under a special alloy dial and in an anti-magnetic case made of special EIA steel or a steel/nickel alloy. The dial is incredibly pitted, to the point where it's hard to tell what color it is: a sort of leopard print somewhere between navy blue and burgundy. The choice to only represent the 12 in Arabic numerals and to use large two-tone indexes with matching two-tone baton hands is above all a choice of readability. Indicating the 12 o'clock position on the dial is enough to understand the principle; we are on a classic twelve-hour dial. But beyond the simple information, the 12 sits above the 11 indexes like a conductor who punctuates the division of time. It is the one that remains when all the others are massacred, this watch resists magnetic attacks and the twelve is the number that resists alone. How did it survive? Maybe because its one looks like I and two is confused with a Z, maybe because it is not so visible, maybe because it is indispensable, maybe by mistake or even by destiny. How can we know, there may not even be a reason? In short, you'll have understood that aesthetically this dial is badly damaged, the case is scratched, but it works well. This doesn't make the watch less interesting; on the contrary, it seems to tell a story. And ultimately, that's what we're looking for when wearing a vintage watch: that it tells the time fairly reliably and, above all, that it tells a story. The soundtrack I would choose to accompany this case would be "From Russia with Love," recently released by the Moscow punk band Normy Morali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYhrNKgvKtY Adjectives: indomitable, armored, antimagnetic, resistant, rebellious, experienced, survivor