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GALLET: The Oldest Name in Time — A Swiss Chronograph Pioneer, and How to Buy One Author: Marco Ferri (Horological Atlas) - Softcover
Synopsis
A Gallet is recorded among the clockmakers of Geneva in 1466. The firm that carries the name has been making chronographs since before the wristwatch was taken seriously — and timing things that mattered ever since.
Wrist chronographs for the British Army in 1916. The MultiChron range that armed a generation of professionals. The Clamshell of 1939, one of the first water-resistant chronographs. The Flying Officer, the worldtimer chronograph that Harry Truman wore. And behind almost all of it, the movements of Excelsior Park at Saint-Imier.
Then the quartz decade, the merger, and a long silence — until Breitling bought the name in 2025.
This book is the full account, and the working method for buying one.
Inside:
- What “the oldest name” actually claims, stated narrowly enough to hold
- An exploded view of a chronograph movement, layer by layer
- Start, stop, reset — what the column wheel does at each press, and why almost-zero means a damaged cam
- The Clamshell: why sealing a chronograph is harder than sealing a diver, and how a second case solved it
- Three scales, three jobs — tachymetre, telemetre and decimal, and who bought each
- The oval movement: an engineer's answer, not a stylist's whim
- The Excelsior Park calibre family, and why the Gallet decision is the scarce part
- Reading the Flying Officer, the Astronomic and the yachting countdown dial
- A case-back decoder in six steps, and what happens when two marks disagree
- Condition grading with defined boundaries, red flags in a listing, and an eight-gate buying sequence
For the collector who has stopped reading auction copy and started reading the watch.
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