2013-07-10 - 300 Year Old Russian Watch Factory Raketa Accepts Bitcoins

[Lethn]

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/300-year-old-russian-watch-factory-raketa-accepts-bitcoins/

The Bitcoin community and user base continues to expand and businesses old and new are embracing this new digital, decentralized cryptocurrency to simplify the payment process and meet consumer needs.  The quantity and variety of businesses accepting payment in Bitcoin continues to expand.  From real estate sites to now watch factories, Bitcoin has been embraced to simplify payment and incentivize merchants to sell products and in turn deal with fewer transaction fees.

Just this week, Russia’s historical watch factory Raketa, began accepting Bitcoins.  Raketa was founded in 1721 by Peter the Great and is the oldest factory in Russia.  For almost 300 years, Raketa, formerly known as Petrodvorets Watch Factory, has produced and sold wristwatches to individuals in Russian and those around the world.  Petrodvorets Watch Factory was renamed Raketa in 1961 to honor the World’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.  Yuri was the first human to travel to outer space.

This is a significant step in the right direction for the Bitcoin community.  Over the years Raketa’s watches have been produced for the members of the Red Army, Soviet Navy, North Pole expeditions and civilians.  Not only is Raketa respected by Russian leadership, but also popular with the public having an array of watch designs from practical to fashionable.  Raketa even has the last remaining watchmaking school and operates this training program in conjunction with the Saint Petersberg Technical Institute.  Raketa is just not another watch brand or shop, but has deep roots within Russia and a global reach.  We can expect Raketa’s step to embrace the Bitcoin currency as a catalyst for other businesses in Russian and around the world to transact in Bitcoin.

Raketa produces all mechanical movements in-house, setting this watch factory apart.  Raketa is now unique in an even more significant way in that it currently stands as the only watch factory to date accepting Bitcoins for payment.  Factory Director, Jacques von Polier stated, “It is very easy to accept Bitcoins…you just put a logo on your site saying- we accept bitcoins- and that’s it.  It is as simple as saying we accept cash!”  Manufacturers and merchants can heed Von Polier’s example of taking an easy step and in the long run a very beneficial step of accepting Bitcoins.
Bitcoin Magazine encourages businesses to follow suite and accept this alternative payment method which not only alleviates merchant woes, but also makes payment much more convenient for customers.  Check out Raketa’s watch selection and feel free to look into making a purchase in Bitcoin today.

[btceic]

thanks for posting, this is just one more excellent step ahead for bitcoin!

[paraipan]

thanks for posting, this is just one more excellent step ahead for bitcoin!

+1 interesting    maybe is time I wear a wristwatch

[kiba]

DATE Format should be 2013-07-10.

[Lethn]

Fucking Americans! I tried adjusting it for your system but I don't know it very well, now I'm just going to make it for the UK system just to piss you off.

[paraipan]

DATE Format should be 2013-07-10.

Who puts the years before days ?? Lol

[kiba]

Fucking Americans! I tried adjusting it for your system but I don't know it very well, now I'm just going to make it for the UK system just to piss you off.

Please conform to the rule of this board or prepared to be corrected for your irregularity.

[paraipan]

Fucking Americans! I tried adjusting it for your system but I don't know it very well, now I'm just going to make it for the UK system just to piss you off.

Please conform to the rule of this board or prepared to be corrected for your irregularity.

Get a "chill-pill" kiba

[Lethn]

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Suck it Kiba

[CoinEntropy]

These are really cool watches. Wish they had online shops.

Edit: Found it, thanks!

[Foxpup]

DATE Format should be 2013-07-10.

Who puts the years before days ?? Lol

People who want the lexicographical order to correspond to chronological order, that's who. That's literally the only reason Press topics are supposed to start with the date at all. Putting the date in any other format is no better than omitting the date completely. It's all explained in this sticky thread, which people are expected to actually read before posting here. But that's probably expecting too much.

[kiba]

Reported to the mod for regulation violation.

[CoinEntropy]

Reported to the mod for regulation violation.

What here is a regulation violation? Or is this sarcasm?

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

Fucking Americans! I tried adjusting it for your system but I don't know it very well, now I'm just going to make it for the UK system just to piss you off.

Reported to the mod for regulation violation.

What here is a regulation violation? Or is this sarcasm?

Just write the damn dates in the correct format and stop talking bullshit.

If the dates are not in the correct format, this subforum quickly becomes totally unreadable. We want clarity so that in the future it is easier to see the succession of events.

[dave111223]

Fucking Americans! I tried adjusting it for your system but I don't know it very well, now I'm just going to make it for the UK system just to piss you off.

It's not "American" format (which would be mm/dd/yy)

It's a standard international programming format for a DATE value: yyyy-mm-dd (hours:minutes:seconds)

[Lethn]

Wasn't most programming stuff invented by Americans anyway? This is why we have color in a lot of languages instead of colour as far as I know and stuff like that, anyway, it's corrected to UK format now so

[TraderTimm]

Take it easy on Kiba - I don't mind him reminding people how to actually pay attention and format their post headings. I haven't submitted here much, but the first thing I did was read the guidelines -- why does everyone else skip that? Too self-important? Too lazy?

[Chalkbot]

Take it easy on Kiba - I don't mind him reminding people how to actually pay attention and format their post headings. I haven't submitted here much, but the first thing I did was read the guidelines -- why does everyone else skip that? Too self-important? Too lazy?

And furthermore, I don't understand how you can come into this part of the forums, see all of the topics formated in a specific way, and just decide to do whatever. I don't even need to read the guidelines to know that if I'm not breaking one of them by doing this, I'm at the very least shitting on the forum etiquette. It happens so frequently that I start doubting myself. Am I the asshole here?

Who wants their topics to start with the year? How about people that want to read news from the current year? I don't feel like that was a huge logical leap, so it's surprising to me that so many people don't grasp the concept.