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Who are these two guys on an old Soviet watch?

  1. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    I have found an old Soviet watch with two guys embedded.

    WHO ARE THEY?

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  2. blufinz52 Hears dead people, not watch rotors. Dec 21, 2019

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    George Herbert Walker Bush on the left.
    Boris Yeltsin on the right.
     
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  3. krogerfoot Dec 21, 2019

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    It's either George HW Bush and Boris Yeltsin or Charles Nelson Reilly and Liberace
     
  4. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    Why did they make such a design? Is this watch popular?
     
  5. blufinz52 Hears dead people, not watch rotors. Dec 21, 2019

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  6. Evitzee Dec 21, 2019

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    Why? Because the Communists always wanted to elevate their evil system to be on an equal basis of the West. It still goes on with the likes of China, Iran and North Korea. Propaganda.
     
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  7. khanmu Dec 21, 2019

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    Or it could have been made around Feb 1992 to celebrate Presidents Bush and President Yeltsin formally ending the Cold War, and their joint declaration to that effect...
     
  8. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    anyone see such one with better condition?
     
  9. krogerfoot Dec 21, 2019

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    This is the best and only example of this I have yet seen.
     
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  10. Evitzee Dec 21, 2019

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    You can say that, but It's still propaganda from the communist side of the equation.
     
  11. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    I'm thinking to take this one as some toy:p
     
  12. khanmu Dec 21, 2019

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    I could, except that the USSR, Communism and the role of the Communist Party were all formally dissolved before that, in Dec 1991...
     
  13. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    I think it seems to be too worn out to be produced after 1992...
     
  14. krogerfoot Dec 21, 2019

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    If the watch was made any earlier than the 1990s, that would support my theory that it depicts Liberace and Charles Nelson Reilly.
     
  15. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    What's the history of them?
     
  16. Evitzee Dec 21, 2019

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    The communists ran the joint from 1917 until the concept went bust, but their mentality didn't change overnight. In fact Putin considers the fall of the USSR to be one of the great disasters of the 20th century. The watch in question is along the lines of other such watches made in the USSR over the years, usually with Soviet figures (cosmonauts, Olympic heroes, politicians and the like). Who knows, maybe they made a watch of Khrushchev banging his shoe at the UN.
     
  17. krogerfoot Dec 21, 2019

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    I'm just kidding. It's absolutely Bush and Yeltsin and undoubtedly commemorates what khanmu says it does:

    Russian watches with painted dials are pretty plentiful, and Yeltsin certainly appears on quite a few of them.
     
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  18. krogerfoot Dec 21, 2019

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    I have some good news about the Cold War, then: The communists pretty much lost.
     
  19. Phil F Dec 21, 2019

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    I see... So this one was definitely produced in the early 90s, with awful quality...
     
  20. DaveK Yoda of Yodelers Dec 21, 2019

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    You should still take it to your watchmaker and have it checked for listening devices.