On September 12 the Museum of Time and Clocks launched a distinctive exhibition: Camera! Time! That’s a Wrap!.
The display brings together a selection of wristwatches from the collection of media manager and producer Vyacheslav Murugov. Each piece is paired with a photograph — a film still that reveals the watch on an actor’s wrist — creating a small narrative embedded in the culture, cinema and everyday life of its period.
In the exhibition cases you’ll find watches similar to those worn both off‑screen and on‑screen by the era’s beloved stars: Faina Ranevskaya, Oleg Basilashvili, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yuri Nikulin and others. These details help explain why directors and costume designers chose accessories so deliberately — a single model could convey a character’s social rank, historical setting and even temperament.
Amusing anecdotes and curious discoveries add further appeal. In some Soviet films viewers can spot continuity slips, where characters set in the 1940s are wearing watches that only appeared in the 1970s.
Admission to the exhibition is free.
