Created in 1961 at the Petrodvorets Watch Factory near Saint Petersburg to honor Yuri Gagarin's first human spaceflight, Raketa manufactures distinctive Russian mechanical watches and its own movements.
Open in The Dial AtlasThe Raketa entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 16 cataloged references across 11 families. The catalog records 1961 as its founding year and Russia as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.
Start with Big Zero (5 references), Russian Code (2 references), Amphibia (1 reference), Avant-Garde (1 reference), and Baikonur (1 reference). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.
Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.