Chaika lang ru , meaning sea gull watches are a women s brand made in the Soviet Union and Russia . The factory making Chaikawatches was founded in 1940 as Volga in the city of Uglich for the production of precision technical stones and watch jewels. The factory subsequently made watches with small calibres 16 mm . In 1956, the company changed its name to Chaika, marketing watches under two brand names Chaika and Volga . The brand name Chaika was in honor of the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova , as that was her call sign . Chaika still manufactures watch movement movements for some of their watches however quality problems that have plagued the company since the breakup of the Soviet Union have caused Chaika to source most of the movements to Asian manufacturers Miyota Citizen in particular. External links http watch.ru brand.shtml?id 617 Chaikawatches at WATCH.ru Ru 2006 http www.russianwatchguide.com chaika.htm Russian Watch Guide ru Category Watch brands Category Soviet brands manufacturing company stub ja ... more details
Image Chaika 2.JPG thumb Chaika 2 Chaika lang ru was a series of Soviet Union Soviet 135 film 35mm half frame camera s produced by BELOMO from 1965 to 1974. The name came from call sign of the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova . Over 2 million Chaika cameras were produced. All models of the Chaika cameras are made out of metal. Chaika cameras share the following basic specifications Lens Industar 69 Focal length Diaphragm scale from 2.8 to 16 Focusing 0.8 m to infinite Adjustable shutter speeds 1 30 1 250 of a second and B . Camera models Chaika 1 Chaika 2 Chaika 2M Chaika 3 The Chaika 2 was mass produced in Belarus . Other spellings are Chajka and Chayka. It was produced at the BeLOMO factory between 1967 and 1972. Approximately 1,250,000 copies were made. Its frame sizing on this camera is 18x24 mm. External links http www.rus camera.com camera.php?page chaika&camera chaika Antique Soviet Camera Chaika camera http www.flickr.com groups chaikaChaika group at flickr http mayflyaway.blogspot.com 2009 09 chaika camera shutter not working.html Shutter Release Fix Category Cameras Category Soviet cameras photography stub ru ... more details
Image 53102chaika.jpg thumb A circa 1960 GAZ Chaika parade car Image Chaika front.jpg thumb Front of a GAZ Chaika Image Chaika rear.jpg thumb Rear of a 1974 Chaika. Notice the tailpipe integrated in the rear bumper. Image Chaica car at Regiontour 2010.jpg thumb Sedan Chaika A Chaika , which means gull , is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union made by GAZ . The vehicle is one step down from the ZIL 41047 ZIL limousine . Specifications and history Chaika production consisted of two generations. The mark 1 Chaika, the GAZ M13 , was produced from 1959 to 1981, and is the more famous and more numerous with more than 3,100 examples built during the 22 year production run. The Chaika GAZ M13 was visually a near clone Fact date January 2008 of the 1955 Packard Patrician and Mercury little bit joke? , with typical chrome bedecked 1950s styling. The M13 was powered by a 195 horsepower 145 kW 5.5L V8 engine V8 and driven through a push button automatic transmission of a similar design Fact date January 2008 to the Chrysler TorqueFlite unit. As a limousine class car, Chaikas were available ... 1950s style M13 was succeeded by the more modern Chaika M14 introduced in 1977 although production ... and achieved convert 220 hp . The Chaika M14 remained in production from 1977 to 1988, after which point the Chaika limousine brand was ended. Although most Chaikas were sedan car sedan s, both generations ..., it ran to the end of Chaika production in 1988. A station wagon version, the M13A Universal, was produced for a few years in the 1960s and is the lowest volume Chaika variant. Many of the wagons were ... File GAZ 14 Czajka.JPG GAZ 14 Chaika File GAZ1405.JPG GAZ 1405 Chaika File 1405s.JPG GAZ 1405 Chaika inside gallery Trivia The Hungarian Railway Museum features a Chaika that has been converted to travel ... from 1899 to 1958. See also GAZ External links commonscat Chaika http www.abc.se m9805 eastcars gaz ... Tschaika Automarke es GAZ Chaika fr GAZ Cha ka hu GAZ 13 Csajka pl GAZ 13 Czajka ru ... more details
Infobox planet width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Chaika named after Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Chaika Tereshkova symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer Neujmin, G. discovery site Simeis discovered October 3, 1934 designations yes mp name 1671 alt names 1934 TD mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 3.2564352 perihelion 1.9234420 semimajor eccentricity 0.2573407 period 1522.4135431 avg speed inclination 3.95561 asc node 177.41924 mean anomaly 213.64044 arg peri 249.88774 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 12.0 1671 Chaika 1934 TD is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1934 by Neujmin, G. at Simeis . The name Russian language Russian for seagull commemorates the call sign of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova , the first woman in space. ref Cite book last Schmadel first Lutz D. authorlink Lutz D. Schmadel title Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1 publisher Springer date 2003 location New York pages 133 url http books.google.com books?id KWrB1jPCa8AC&lpg PP1&dq isbn 3A3540002383&pg PA133 v onepage&q tereshkova&f false isbn 3540002383 ref References Reflist External links JPL small body Minor planets navigator 1670 Minnaert 1672 Gezelle Small Solar System bodies DEFAULTSORT Chaika Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for people Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1934 Beltasteroid stub de 1671 Chaika eo 1671 aiko fa fr 1671 Chaika it 1671 Chaika la 1671 Chaika hu 1671 Chaika nn 1671 Chaika pl 1671 Chaika pt 1671 Chaika sk 1671 Chaika sr 1671 Chaika tl 1671 Chaika ... more details
File Chaika viyskova Boplan 1660.png thumb Illustration of a chaika boat from Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan s book Description of Ukraine , 1660 A chaika is a wooden boat with a mast sailing mast and sail used by the Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 16th 17th centuries on the Dnieper River Dnipro River and the Black Sea . Construction Chaikas were between 18 to 20 metres in length, 3 to 3.5 metres in width, and 3.5 to 4 metres in depth. The bottom of a chaika was carved out of a single Trunk botany tree trunk , with sides built out of wooden planks. To protect the boat from enemy guns or from sinking, Phragmites reed bales were tied to the gunwale s of the boat. Chaikas also had two helm s, so that the boat never needed turning around in order to switch direction. One such boat could carry around 50 to 60 men and up to 6 Falconet cannon falconets small cannon . A similar, but larger boat used by the Zaporozhian Cossacks for both transport and warfare was called a baidak . References Chaika. Encyclopedia of Ukraine . Ed. Volodymyr Kubijovy . Vol. 1. Canada University of Toronto Press, 1984. External links http www.ukrweekly.com old archive 2005 280528.shtml The Viking drakkar and the Kozak chaika DEFAULTSORT Chaika Boat Category Sailboat types Category Ukrainian Cossacks ship type stub Ukraine stub cs ajka lo hr ajka brod hu Csajka haj ja pl Czajka d ru uk ... more details
Infobox US Cabinet official name Yury Chaika image Yuriy Chaika 2009.jpg imagesize 240px caption Yury Chaika, Prosecuter General of the Russian Federation order title 6th Prosecutor General of Russia term start June 23, 2006 term end president Vladimir Putin preceded Vladimir Ustinov birth date birth date and age 1951 5 21 birth place Khabarovsk Krai , Soviet Union occupation lawyer Attorney religion alma mater Yury Yakovlevich Chaika lang ru is the current Prosecutor General of Russia Prosecutor General of Russia . Career Yury Chaika began his career as an electrician in a shipyard. After serving in the army, he graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in 1976 and began work at Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor s Office where he served as an investigator and a deputy district prosecutor. In 1983 he became head of the investigations at the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor s Office. From 1984 to 1992 Chaika worked in various positions for the Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor s Office, the regional Communist Party and the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor s Office. In 1992 he was appointed Irkutsk Oblast prosecutor. In 1995 he became first deputy Russian prosecutor general. He was appointed by then Prosecutor General Yury Skuratov , his former classmate from Sverdlosk Institute of Law. ref Gridneva, Marina 20 June 2006 . . Moskovskiy Komsomolets . ref Following Skuratov s suspension, Chaika served as acting prosecutor general for a brief spell between April and August 1999. From August 1999 to June 2006 he served as justice minister. On 23 June 2006 Chaika became Russian prosecutor general, effectively swapping jobs with his predecessor ... 16, 2007 Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises ... Scandal Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chaika, Yury ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chaika, Yury Category Justice ministers of Russia Category Living people ... more details
to 1958 Chistopol Watch Factory now Vostok Watchmakers Inc., producer of Vostok watches from 1949 to the 1950s Second Moscow Watch Factory Produced up to recently the Slava Watches from 1953 to 1964 Zavod ... on building watches using movements of the same fundamental design under various names, incorporating ... became the firm s single brand name. Chistopol made Chaika, Druschba , Jantar, Kama, Kolos, Raduga ... name, but also became the basis of a generation of watches including the Sportivnie, Sturmanskie ... more details
multiple issues notability August 2009 primarysources August 2009 lowercase hr Watches is an American luxury lifestyle magazine published since 1998. It features mechanical watch es and other luxury items. Recent Cover Deleted image removed Image Hr watches october2007.jpg Empty section date July 2010 External links http www.hrwatches.com hr Watches Category American magazines ... more details
Epos Montres Epos SA is an independent Swiss manufacturer of Mechanical watch mechanical watches , with headquarters in Grenchen , Switzerland . As well as making watches under their own brand, they manufacture watches for boutique watch companies such as Montblanc pens Montblanc and MarcelloC. External links http www.epos.ch Official Website http www.tendancehorlogerie.com en histoire de la marque epos History of Epos Category Manufacturing companies manufacturing company stub ru Epos ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2010 Notability date March 2010 Independent Watches , a secondary label to Citizen Watch Co. Citizen Watches offered primarily in Japan , feature a more modern, contemporary look than the traditional Citizen line. Watch es produced through the Independent label are generally released through seasonal collections. External links http independentwatch.com Citizen Independent jp http independentwatch.com girl index.html Independent Girl Watches jp product stub Category Watch brands ... more details
Normal ref , W Magazine s Editors Blog ref wmagazine.com, April 3, 2009, These Watches Give Us a Cheap Thrill ref , Gawker s Gizmodo.com ref Social Media Watches Tells You It s Time for an Intervention ... These Watches Tick by Karen Hansen, The Pantagraph, October 23, 2009, http www.pantagraph.com business ... Modern Lifestyle, http www.polkadot.it normal watches ref as well as numerous fashion and lifestyle blogs. Normal Watches have also appeared on various episodes of The Colbert Report ref The Colbert ... more details
The World of Watches is a media franchise consisting of four novels, two films and a video game based on a fictional world created by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko . List of works Novels Night Watch Lukyanenko novel Night Watch Day Watch novel Day Watch Twilight Watch Final Watch Films Night Watch 2004 film Night Watch 2004 Day Watch film Day Watch 2006 Video game Night Watch video game Night Watch 2005 Day Watch video game Day Watch 2007 World of Watches Category Media franchises Category Night Watch ru ... more details
Watches of the Night is a short story by Rudyard Kipling . It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 25th 1887 in book form, first in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 and in the many subsequent editions of that collection. It is one of the Tales which deals with the tense, enclosed society of the British in India, and the levels of gossip and malice that could be engendered therein. nowiki nowiki Watches of the Night nowiki nowiki , like many of Kipling s works, has a punning, allusive title. The phrase watches of the night has been used since at least the Book of Common Prayer 1662 , and dates back further the watches of the night the night time watch originally each of the three or four periods of time, during which a watch or guard was kept, into which the night was divided by the Jews and Romans watches A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , ed Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of Hull. 19 September 2008 at http www.oxfordreference.com views ENTRY.html?subview Main&entry t214.e7611 . The phrase occurs in the King James Bible Psalms , and has also been used in several works of literature as a clich for what is also called the wee small hours , or the early morning , often with connotations of blackness both of night and of the spirits and depression e. g. Longfellow wrote in The Cross of Snow 1879 In the long, sleepless watches of the night . Kipling uses this, along with a pun on the word watches the story turns on two identical timepieces. Both the Colonel, commanding the regiment, and a Subaltern in the Regiment, Platte, a poor man, own Waterbury watches. These are Pocket watch fob or Pocket watch es, not wrist watches Each usually hangs from a chain. The Waterbury from the town of Waterbury, Connecticut is a mass produced and not especially .... wikisource Watches of the Night All quotations in this article have been taken from the Uniform ... more details
primarysources date May 2009 Infobox Company name Oris SA logo Image Oris logo.png type Private company foundation 1904 by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian location city H lstein location country Switzerland location modifies Headquarters entry locations of locations key people Ulrich W. Herzog, Managing Director area served industry Watch manufacturing products Wristwatches services revenue Profit CHF 19.8 million 2009 operating income net income num employees 50 2009 parent divisions subsid slogan It s High Mech homepage http www.oris.ch Oris.ch dissolved footnotes intl Enter yes to change labels to international instead of US terminology Image Oriswatchs.JPG thumb 300px Oris watches Oris is a brand of Switzerland Swiss luxury wristwatch es. The Oris watch factory was founded by Paul Cattin and Georges Christian at H lstein Basel Country in 1904. Oris are well known for producing only mechanical watch es. In 1968 Oris obtained full chronometer watch chronometer certification from the Neuch tel Observatory for movement cal.652. In 2003 Oris signed an agreement to become the sole supplier of watches to the BMW Williams Formula One Team. The Oris Limited Edition Williams F1 Team Chronograph was the most successful Vague date March 2008 Most accurate? Sold in the largest quantity? Brought the most revenue? Oris watch in 2003. Fact date December 2007 Collection Oris manufactures only mechanical watches. Oris divides their watches into four subsections Motor Sport, Aviation, Culture and Diving. Within their Culture family they are famous for producing their jazz watches. These include models such as the recently introduced Dizzy Gillespie limited edition. Other watches within this subsection are watches named after Charlie Parker , Leonhard Euler , Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan . Oris released a huge 51 mm professional diver s watch in 2009. ref http professionalwatches.com 2009 06 first impression oris pro dive.html ref References Reflist External links http www.oris wa ... more details
Infobox company name Rotary Watches Ltd logo Image Rotary Watches Logo.gif type Privately held company foundation 1895 by Moise Dreyfuss location city Regent Street Regent Street, London location country United Kingdom location modifies Headquarters entry locations of locations key people Robert Dreyfuss small Chairman small area served industry Watch movement & case manufacturing products Wristwatches, accessories services slogan Established Switzerland 1895 homepage http www.rotarywatches.com Rotary Official Website dissolved footnotes intl Enter yes to change labels to international instead of US terminology Rotary Watches Ltd. was established at La Chaux de Fonds , Switzerland by Moise Dreyfuss in 1895. By the 1920s family members Georges and Sylvain Dreyfuss began importing Rotary watches to United Kingdom Britain , which was to become the company s most successful market. Rotary is still an independent family company, and at present Robert Dreyfuss the great grandchild of Moise Dreyfuss is its chairman. In 1940 Rotary became the official watch supplier for the British Army ref http www.rotarywatches.com en about swiss heritage ref . Coinciding as this did with the Second World War and the drafting of huge numbers into the army, the move put a Rotary watch in almost every household in Britain, leaving a lasting impression of the brandname brand in the UK. More recently, Rotary Watches was elected as one of the UK s superbrands in 2006 ref http www.rotarywatches.com en about superbrand ref and has retained its place in successive years. The winged wheel Rotary logo was first ... traditional brand, the company also produces watches under the more exclusive Dreyfuss & Co name. Rotary ... heritage, Rotary Watches head office is now in the UK, and they are predominantly a British ... as Swiss. Rotary watches typically use either a quartz watch quartz or automatic watch automatic ... between two different time zones . External links http www.rotarywatches.com Rotary Watches http www.fhs.ch ... more details
watches at cameranaked.com ref Present day Since 1971 the Sandoz brand name has been split into four ... watches under the Sandoz name, but each production company has its own line of products. Sandoz Swiss manufactures high quality watches, while Sandoz Hong Kong and Sandoz Singapore manufacture cheaper watches of lower quality. Sandoz Hong Kong products are assembled in Hong Kong using Swiss movements from ETA SA . ref http www.pmwf.com Watches WATCHSALES SandozSWISSSalesTable.htm Sandoz Swiss watches at pmwf.com ref Notes reflist See also List of watch manufacturers External links Gary ... more details
and acquired the rights to use the Slava name. The watches were to be separate from the Russian ... logo. Since 2006, these Slava Sozvezdie watches appear in vast quantities, they contain no Russian content but often marked Russia on the dial, and are built as cheaply as possible. These watches ... more details
series models, the Swiss Formulas, the Sea Wolf, and most automatic watches and all of the Zodiac ... rights to the Zodiac brand name for approximately 4.7 million for use in connection with watches ... more details
name Rossum Also, watches weren t widely worn in pockets until the 17th century. 1500 1600 Clock watches ... clocks and watches. ref cite book last Milham first Willis I. title Time and Timekeepers year 1945 publisher MacMillan location New York pages 133 137 isbn 0780800087 ref These clock watches were fastened ... later in the century there was a trend for unusually shaped watches, and clock watches shaped like books, animals, fruit, stars, flowers, insects, crosses, and even skulls Death s head watches were made. It should not be thought that the reason for wearing these early clock watches was to tell ... century and men began to wear watches in pockets instead of as pendant s the woman s watch remained ... Encyclopedia of Antiques volume Clocks and Watches publisher Old and Sold url http www.oldandsold.com ... to these changes, so early watches slowed down during their running period as the mainspring ran down. This problem, called lack of Isochronous isochronism , plagued mechanical watches throughout their history. Efforts to improve the accuracy of watches prior to 1657 focused on evening out the steep ... watches the stackfreed and the fusee horology fusee . The stackfreed, a spring loaded cam on the mainspring ... standard in all watches, and were used until the early 19th century. The foliot was also gradually .... This increased watches accuracy enormously, from perhaps several hours per day ref Milham 1945, p.226 ... thing to be improved was the escapement . The verge escapement was replaced in quality watches by the Escapement ... developed by George Graham clockmaker George Graham in the 1720s. In Britain a few quality watches ... Temperature compensation and chronometers The Age of Enlightenment Enlightenment view of watches as scientific ... advances that were later used in watches. It was found that a major cause of error in balance wheel ... error to a few seconds per day, gradually began to be used in watches over the next hundred years ... pocket chronometers and astronomical watches with many hands and functions were made during this period ... more details
watch diver mechanical watches at its factory in Chistopol , Tatarstan , Russia . It also makes ... was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the Company did not begin ... was appointed an official supplier of watches for the Defense Department of the Soviet Union in 1965 ... 4.5 million timepieces per year. ref name IWatch Watches issued to the military were marked ... collection. Vostok also began producing a luxury line of watches called Kremlevskie . Both lines are made ... 125px right Amfibia logo In 2006, Vostok Watch Makers began marketing another new line of watches branded ... No. 2416B movement. These watches feature diver styling with polyurethane or stainless steel bands ... watches and movements as of May 2010 . ref name TimeSeller http www.timeseller.ru watchnews 2010 05 .... Usually Poljot watches are associated with the Soviet Space Program. But Vostok watches were ... Union Volna , Almaz and Vostok Precision , based on their movement Vostok 2809 with 22 jewels. The watches ... proof watches in water proof case, clock devices for various branches of a national economy. 1957, Release of precision watches K 28 East , Mir , Volna , Saturn , Cosmos with lateral and central second hands, a lens and shock proof movement is mastered. Export of Chisopol watches has increased ... watches are developed and manufacturing begins Chistopol watch factory became the official supplier of these watches to the Ministry of Defence of the USSR. 1968, Release of Amphibian watch Since 1969, all watches are manufactired under the Vostok trademark, and the Chistopol Watch Factory ... calendar, a double calendar, and an automatic movement Watches are exported to 54 countries .... The assortment of watches is annually updated on 70 , release of watches with custom made symbolics is mastered. Export of watches increases. 1992, The factory passes under jurisdiction of Republic Tatarstan and becomes an Open Joint Stock company. The majority of watches are exported to Italy ... more details
them to design and manufacture their own Technos branded watches. 1995, the company sold the rights ... sales service of the countless Technos Swiss Made watches sold in Japan between 1955 and 2002. TECHNOS ... Rio Grande do Sul, started to represent Technos watches, with the slogan The most punctual Swiss of the world ... e Com rcio Ltda, both 100 Brazilian companies, they produce about a million watches a year in their own manufacturing facilities in Manaus. Now based on Citizen movements, Technos watches are no longer ..., Switzerland DEFAULTSORT Technos Watches Category Watch brands ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Cyma traces its early origins from a small watch company founded in 1862 ref name history1 CYMA s History 1862 1902 http www.cymawatch.com brand history 1862 1902 ref by the brothers, Joseph and Theodre Schwob, of Schwob Fr res and Co.. The Schwob brothers named the company wikt cyma cyma , the French word for wikt summit summit . In early years, the company had a staff of 40 people and 55 machines that together produced about 40 watches a day. Yet, it was not until 1892 when the brothers partnered with Frederic Henri Sandoz, the owner of the watch wholesale company, Henri Sandoz and Cie , that the business expanded. Under Sandoz s leadership, the company became the Cyma Watch Company and built the famous Cyma factory in La Chaux de Fonds , Switzerland in the Jura Mountains . La Chaux de Fonds is near Le Locle . Both towns were the center of the Swiss watchmaking industry in the 19th century ref name history1 . The price of watches are ranging from 500 18000. Now the company is located in Le Locle and means to Claude and Fran oise Guilgot. On 9th september 2010, Cyma SA and E Watch organised a big event in Yverdon to launch their new brand collection http www.myriad.ch Myriad . Reflist Category Watch brands Category Companies established in 1862 ... more details
2005.cfm Nixon Watches Sold to Billabong Bot generated title ref blockquote The Billabong group ... zone. Nixon offers a variety of watches within various styles for both Men and Women with Swiss Quartz ... more details
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