The watch article was on HN a few day ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365956 While the title is prov

The watch article was on HN a few day ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365956 While the title is provocatively titled, "How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches", it seems to be more of a play on words around the Soviet revolution. The article is about how they bought watchmaking equipment from the US, looted machinery from Germany after WWII, and copied swiss designs. Soviet watches were workhorses, but not revolutionary at all.