1980's "Saxon" 34mm GDR made Hand Winding Watch
£25.00Price
Working and keeping time, a late example of a quality workaday watch from behind the former Iron Curtain - A GDR made (East German) Saxon.
Brass case 34mmx41mm - Centre sweep seconds.
In the 1980s Ruhla’s watchmaking industry had reached its peak. It employed over 8000 people in the design and manufacture of watches, watch movements as well as watch production machinery. Such a degree of vertical integration was not possible anywhere else in the world, so Ruhla quite likely became the world’s largest watchmaking plant.