Russian SVR Foreign Intelligence Service Presentation Titanium Wristwatch with Case & Gift Bag – New/Unused, Rare Original Issue

Description

Original Item – Only One Available. A rare Russian SVR presentation wristwatch bearing the insignia and full title of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. The SVR has periodically commissioned wristwatches in small departmental batches for presentation to distinguished personnel, veterans, and officers recognized for successful service. Such pieces functioned as presentation or “award” watches rather than standard uniform equipment, and this example belongs to that tradition. Produced in Russia and fitted with a quartz movement and lightweight titanium case, it was intended as a personal commemorative object carrying the identity of the Service.

The watch is a Russian-made quartz model with a lightweight titanium case, finished with a clean silver-white dial, applied baton hour markers and three-hand configuration. Above the center is the detailed SVR heraldic emblem, while the lower dial carries the full inscription “Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.” The polished case back is engraved with the Service’s distinctive double-headed eagle and central globe-and-star, transforming what is otherwise a restrained dress watch into an unmistakably departmental object. It remains new and unused, fitted with its original black leather strap. The accompanying packaging is equally important: the set retains the brown presentation case bearing the SVR emblem, the original Russian watch packaging associated with the Russkoe Vremya / Poljot Trade House family, and the distinctive blue SVR presentation bag decorated with the Service emblem and headquarters imagery. 

Complete departmental watches are considerably more desirable than isolated examples because the watch, SVR-marked presentation case and Service gift packaging remain together as a coherent set. Unlike mass-produced souvenir watches carrying security-service imagery, this example combines Russian manufacture, titanium construction, dedicated SVR dial and case-back engraving, and presentation packaging associated directly with the Foreign Intelligence Service. For an advanced collection of SVR, KGB-successor, Russian intelligence or modern state-security material, it is an unusually complete and display-worthy piece representing the less frequently encountered presentation tradition of the Service.

For international shipment, the quartz battery will be removed in accordance with shipping requirements; the watch will be supplied without the battery installed.