Gallet

The Oldest Name in Time - A Swiss Chronograph Pioneer, and How to Buy One Author: Marco Ferri

von Marco Ferri

130 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.>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 sequenceIllustrated 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.

• ISBN: 9798172509681
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp