GALLET: The Oldest Name in Time — A Swiss Chronograph Pioneer, and How to Buy One Author: Marco Ferri (Horological Atlas) - Couverture souple

FERRI, MARCO

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798172509681

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

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

Illustrated with thirty-two technical drawings, decoders and reference tables — diagrams, not photographs.
For the collector who has stopped reading auction copy and started reading the watch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798172509681
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible