A piece of each watch has been to the edge of space as part of a Soyuz rocket. The rest of it is waiting for you. Here and now on planet Earth. On October 14, 2020, a Soyuz rocket lifted off from the same launch pad Yuri Gagarin left from, and three hours later it reached the International Space Station. The bezels on these two watches are cut from that same rocket. Read that again. Not modeled on a rocket. Not finished to look like one. Cut from the very metal of the launcher that carried three human beings off this planet. Hold the watch to the light and the scratches on the bezel are not flaws. They are the fingerprints of a machine built to leave the Earth. Raketa made it with the men who flew it. The cosmonauts asked for one thing: a 24-hour dial. Up there, the sun rises and sets sixteen times a day, and an ordinary watch lies to you about whether it is morning. So the dial runs on cosmonaut time, and at its center a small blue Earth turns slowly under the crystal, marking the seconds the only honest way it can be marked in orbit. By the turning of the world. There were 300 of each. This is both: the white dial that says ПОЕХАЛИ, Gagarin's final word as he left the ground, "let's go!", and the deep aventurine that holds the actual glitter of a starfield. And this is the whole of it, the way it left the factory and almost never survives intact: both watches, the rocket itself in miniature on its stand, the mission patch, the Roscosmos certificates, the spacesuit-fabric alternate straps cut from a real Sokol flight suit. Singles surface all the time. The complete set, with the rocket still in the box, you will wait years to see again. Worn honestly, said plainly: the watches are excellent, only the faint hairlines of a careful life. The bezels are marked, and they will stay marked, because they are not steel. They are flown rocket metal, aluminum alloy, and every mark on them was earned somewhere you will never go. This is the closest a wristwatch comes to having been to space. Serious inquiries always welcome. The complete set includes: Both watches: white ПОЕХАЛИ dial and deep blue aventurine dial Metal scale model of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket on its display stand Embroidered Soyuz MS-17 mission patch Roscosmos certificate of authenticity For each watch: genuine Sokol spacesuit-fabric strap plus a matching Raketa leather strap Original Raketa presentation box and warranty cards Specifications: *43mm stainless steel case *Automatic Raketa caliber 2624 *Sapphire front crystal, mineral exhibition caseback *Bidirectional 24-hour solar-compass bezel machined from Soyuz-2.1a launcher metal *Central rotating-globe seconds *22mm quick-release straps *Running rates: white approx. +3 to +12 sec/day, blue approx. +8 to +13 sec/day