Soviet Watch Museum

Description

A very unusual watch released to commemorate the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957. The beautiful dial features 9 birds pictured in different angles. The festival lasted two weeks and became, in every sense, a significant and explosive event for Soviet young men and women — as well as the largest festival of its kind in history. It took place in the middle of Khrushchev’s Thaw and is remembered for its atmosphere of freedom and openness. Foreign visitors were able to communicate freely with Muscovites, and such contact was no longer treated as suspicious or punishable.