Commemorative Ruhla

In honour of particular events in the life of the German Democratic Republic, Ruhla, like other watch producers in the Eastern Socialist States (particularly in the USSR) produced commemorative watches. Here are some examples below:

Ruhla World Time – 30 Jahre Nationalen Jugendfestival der DDR (30 Years of the National Youth Festival of the GDR)

Nationale Jugendfestival DDR

Ruhla World Time – 30 Jahre Nationalen Jugendfestival der DDR (30 Years of the National Youth Festival of the GDR)

Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee, Demonstration, Sportler

Ruhla World Time – 30 Jahre Nationalen Jugendfestival der DDR (30 Years of the National Youth Festival of the GDR)

30 Jahre Nationalen Jugendfestival der DDR Briefmark 1984

Ruhla Quartz Caliber 13 – 35 Jahrestag der DDR (35 Years of the GDR) – 1984

Ruhla Calibre 13 Quartz – 35 Years of the GDR Anniversary Watch Gift from the SED Party Leadership County of Erfurt GDR

35 Jahrestag DDR

Ruhla Calibre 13 Quartz – 35 Years of the GDR (1984) Anniversary Watch Gift from the SED Party Leadership County of Erfurt GDR Caseback

Berlin, 35. Jahrestag DDR-Gründung, Parade

Ruhla Quartz Alarm Clock – Celebrating Berlin’s 750th Anniversary 1987

750 Jahre Berlin DDR

Ruhla Quartz Alarm Clock – Celebrating Berlin’s 750th Anniversary 1987

Berlin, 750-Jahr-Feier, Staatsakt

Ruhla Quartz Alarm Clock – Celebrating Berlin’s 750th Anniversary 1987

Honecker at the Berlin 750 Jahre Parade July 1987

Ruhla Kampfgruppen Gift from the Central Committee of the SED

Ruhla Kampfgruppen Ruhla Quartz 13-33 Calibre

Kampfgruppen Ruhla – Ehrengeschenk Zentralkomittee der SED

Kampfgruppen and Soviet Troups on exercise

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 13-33 Kampfgruppen ZK SED (1)

Kamfgruppen Flag

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 13-33 Kampfgruppen ZK SED (2)

Kampfgruppen 35 Jahre 1988

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 13-33 Kampfgruppen ZK SED (3)

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 14-33 Honorary Gift of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)

Case back engraving- Honorary Gift of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 14-33 Honorary Gift of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)

Erich Honecker poses with kills from the State Hare Hunt

Ruhla – Hasenjagd (State Hare hunt) Erfurt 1988 Quartz Calibre 13

After the hunt at the Erfurt Hasejagd (Hare Hunt) 1988

shooting at the Erfurt Hasejagd (Hare Hunt) 1988 – Erik Honecker Centre

Ruhla – Hasenjagd (State Hare hunt) Erfurt 1988

Erik Honecker shooting at the Erfurt Hasejagd (Hare Hunt) 1988

Lothar de Maiziere congratulated by Modrow in the Volkskammer of the GDR

Ruhla 24 Calibre – German Reunification Referendum Campaign Watch 1990

Reunification of Germany

UMF Ruhla 15 Jewel 10 Years of Ljubljana Buses UMF 29-11 1948-63

UMF Ruhla 15 Jewel 10 Years of Ljubljana Buses engraving (1960)

Ruhla Quartz Watch awarded to Major-General Kamen Petrov from the Minister of National Defence (Bulgaria) in 1986

Dobri Dzhurov – Minister of People’s Defence Bulgaria 1962 to 1990

Ruhla Quartz Watch Calibre 13-33 (1984-1990)

Photos of Major General Petrov’s watch are with kind permission of his grandson Kamen Petrov.

Saxon branded Ruhla depicting Abd al-Karīm Qāsim, (b. 1914, Baghdad, Iraq d. 09/02/1963, Baghdad) Qasim was an Iraqi army officer who overthrew the Iraqi monarchy in 1958 and became head of the newly formed Republic of Iraq. Qāsim became Prime Minister of Iraq until he himself was killed in an Army led coup in 1963. (Photo by kind permission of Safa Matrouk)

The photo of Abd-al-Karim-Qasim used for the Saxon watch dial.

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 14-33 30 Years Service in the Ministry of the Interior with 30 Years Service Medal and Medallion

Ruhla Quartz Calibre 14-33 “For 30 Years Service” in the Ministry of the Interior Engraved Case Back