RUSSIAN ARMY GENERAL ANDREI GETMAN MILITARY OMEGA WATCH

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Nov 17, 2020

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  Presented to noted USSR Army General, hero of USSR Andrei Lavrentyevich Getman (RUSSIAN, 1903 - 1987), a Military Omega watch with white enamel dial; hour and minute hands with sub-seconds complication. Inscribed in Cyrillic to back of case and dated 1927. Case fully hallmarked with Russian 84 zolotnik silver purity marks, German assay marks and .900 purity marks. Further holds Swiss rampant bear .875 purity assay mark. Case numbered 5749452. Movement numbered 4997486. Case movement measures approx. 33mm width East to West INCLUDING crown. Strap does not appear to be original but case and movement appear Original Watch winds and runs and appears to be in great working condition and cosmetically.,. This military Omega watch was presented to very famous worldwide Soviet Union Army General , Hero of Soviet Union Mr. Andrei Getman as his first award on his graduation from military school in Kharkov on September 3 1927, school history in English & Russian. Please check for more information on Wikipedia. Recipient Gold Shashka Saber only awarded to 25 highest ranking Soviet Union Marshalls and Generals. . He was awarded Hero of USSR, four Orders of Lenin, six Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov Second Class, the Order of Bodgan Khmel’nitskii Second Class, the Order of the Red Star, and several foreign orders including Czechoslovakia, Romania, Mongolia, Poland and the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. . Biography: Andriy Lavretiyovych Getman; 5 October (22 September OS) 1903 – 8 April 1987) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (13 April 1964) and Hero of the Soviet Union (May 7, 1965). .After joining the Red Army in 1924, Getman graduated from the Red Commanders School in 1927 and the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army in 1937. Sent to postings in the Transbaikal Military District, he fought at the Battle of Lake Khasan and the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. After Operation Barbarossa, Getman was sent west to command the 112th Tank Division in the defense of Moscow. In April 1942, he became the commander of the 6th Tank Corps, which was converted into the 11th Guards Tank Corps for its actions in the Battle of Kursk. Getman became the deputy commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army in August 1944.After the war, he was commander of armored tank and mechanized troops of the Transcaucasian Military District and was chief of staff and deputy chief of armored tank and mechanized troops. From 1958 to 1964 he was commander of the troops of the Carpathian Military District. Beginning in June 1964 he was chairman of the Central Committee of the All-Union Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force, and Navy. He was deputy to the fifth through seventh convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961.

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