BP2-1922-GALLET-EXCELSIOR-PARK-JULES-RACINE-3-PATENT-JBRIDGE-SPARE-PARTS-COMP-STOP-WATCH

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Date/Report Number …082611.BLC-UD4 Item 1922-1925 GALLET-EXCELSIOR-PARK-JULES-RACINE-3-PATENT-JBRIDGE
-SPARE -PARTS -COMP-STOP-WATCH

Description of item: 1922-1925 GALLET EXCELSIOR PARK JULES RACINE TRIPLE PATENT J BRIDGE RIGHT TOP SLIDE SPARE & PARTS COMPARTMENT, FANCY DIALED STOP WATCH/TIMER . DIAL HAS A FEW HAIRLINES, CASE IF 80%, ORIGINALCRYSTAL IS 90%, MOVEMENT IS OVERHAULED, OVERALL CONDITION IS EXCELLENT TO FINE. THIS APPRAISAL INCLUDES THE LEATHER STRAP AND VINTAGE ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE RIDER BRONZE WATCH FOB.

Estimated Retail Replacement Value $699.00

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Gallet is the world’s oldest watch and clock making house with history dating back to Humbertus Gallet, a clock maker who became a citizen of Geneva in 1466.

GALLET WAS FAMOUS FOR CHRONOGRAPHS AND TIMERS FROM 1910 THROUGH WW1,WWII, TO KOREA & VIETNAM:

When the worldwide economic downturn of the 1930’s caused international trade to plunge by as much as two-thirds, it suddenly became unprofitable for the Gallet Company to continue production of many of its recently established brands. Gallet chose instead, to consolidate its efforts back into its primary area of expertise, that of the manufacture of high quality professional-use timepieces. Under the family name, the Gallet Company continued to flourish by providing hand-held timers and chronograph wristwatches to allied military and industrial clients during the years leading up to and through World War II.


Artillery & Task Timer (1915) - 30 minute timer manufactured by Gallet for the British military during World War One. British Ministry of Defense "Broad Arrow" markings on reverse.	Decimal Artillery Timer (1943) - decimal reading stopwatch manufactured by Gallet, used on Tank landing Ship #13 during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy

Occurrence Timer (1936) - custom manufactured by Gallet for the US Geological Survey, used for measuring durations of seismic activity and other natural phenomena	NYCRR Pocket Chronograph (1916) - pocket watch with timer manufactured by Gallet for rail road conductors and engineers of the New York Central Rail Road

US Navy Pocket Chronograph (1914) - high quality timer manufactured by Gallet under the Jerome Park name for the United States Navy during World War One.	Pilot's or Cockpit Timer (1914) - watch with timer manufactured by Gallet Electa for the British military during World War One. British Ministry of Defense "Broad Arrow" markings on reverse.

AT THE OUT BREAK OF WWII, AND UP UNTIL THE GALLET DECIMAL ARTILLERY TIMER WAS INTRODUCED IN 1943, THE GALLET OCCURRENCE TIMER, CUSTOM MANUFACTURED IN 1936 FOR THE US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WAS THE FIRST GALLET TIMER UTILIZED BY THE US MILITARY

WWII MILITARY TIMERS
BOTH TIMERS ARE PRIMARY 60 SECOND TIMERS
WITH
SECONDARY 100 SECOND TIMERS

1864 - Léon Gallet's brother Lucien Gallet establishes the company's first US location in Chicago, with a New York City office following soon after Together with Jules Racine, a cousin of the Gallet brothers living in the US, the company expands its distribution to the American market.

Jeanneret and Fils created Usine du Parc, by 1890 the company is called Alb and produces anchor watches from 13 to 24 lines, calendar watches and chronographs under the trademarks Colombe and Diana.In 1894 the factory is renamed Jeanneret Frčres and produces chronographs.

On March 21th 1891 a sport stopwatch called “Excelsior” is patented by Alb. Jeanneret et Frčres, it has a movement side bridge in the shape of J; which l becomes a trademark for Excelsior Park

By 1902, the company is named of Jeanneret-Brehm and Co and sells s stopwatches under the Excelsior trademark.

In 1911 Jeaneret -Brehm & Co, along with Gallet, introduce two button (Crown Push and Side Pusher) and Henri Jeanneret-Brehm, a member of the esteemed Jeanneret family of St. Imier watchmakers, purchases the Magnenat-Lecoultre factory with financial assistance from the Gallet company.

By 1918, The Jeanneret-Brehm company becomes Excelsior Park and offers stopwatches and chronographs .

1918 – Jeanneret-Brehm begins manufacturing under the company name Excelsior Park. Deriving the name from Jenneret-Brehm’s previously registered “Excelsior” trademark, the English variation of the French word for “park” is utilized at the prompting of Gallet to support the collaborative efforts of the two companies in their marketing focus on the American consumer.

Beginning in the 1920's, Excelsior Park concentrates exclusively on the stopwatches and chronographs.

In 1921 a patent concerning a bolt, independent of the push-piece crown for starting timing, allowing the stopping of the hand, is filed.

On May 24th, 1922, Excelsior Park patents a small housing inside a movement to place spare parts. That will become also a kind of trademark, making possible instantaneously to recognize an Excelsior Park movement.

The cooperative relationship of Excelsior Park and Gallet leads to the development of a number of time recording mechanisms, including the calibre 40. These new chronograph movements are utilized almost exclusively in Gallet and Excelsior Park wristwatches, with a small number supplied to the Girard Perregaux and Zenith companies when production capabilities allowed.

THE ABOVE GALLET STOP WATCH IS
ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE RARE
THE DIAL IS ONE OF THE FIRST
UTILIZED FOR ONLY THE
HIGHEST PRICED MODELS

HERE THE CLEANED ORIGINAL DIAL
IS INSTALLED AND ORIGINAL HANDS
ARE BEING INSTALLED

[NOTICE THE "PARK" & 6 JEWELS
LATER MODELS HAD 7 JEWELS]

UNDERNEATH
SPARE PARTS
FOR REPAIR