A Molnija (read: MOL-nee-yah) pocket watch from my collection.
I have it with an original paper box plus documents where it says that the date of production was some time in September 2001 but no chain to hook it to a trouser belt or something. And I bought it as new old stock (BNIB) some time in 2013.
This one is in a hunter case (with lid/duster) and the design is called Pearl.
I think you can see some pearl related motiffs. Though at first I didn't know that it was officially so called and thought it was related to something agricultural and mistook the "pearl" on the lid for some root vegetable.
The dial also continues to explore the Pearl theme, with the yellow circle at 12 o'clock also apparently representing a pearl and the dial in two shades of blue -- the color of the ocean.
And
On the back there's a generic Molnija ornament.
Movements shots:
The cal. 3602 movement in its 2000s version -- yellow plates (brass?), no central stone, other simplifications, no decoration, rough machining.
Watch collectors don't have much respect for the Molnija movements of this particular vintage believing them somehow to be inferior to Molnija movements of almost every other period but, whether true or not, I don't share this snobbery.
If anything, in this guise, they look even more like their Corterbert ancestors. Compare.
Picture courtesy Internet
Picture courtesy Tourby watches
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