Gallet & Company

Gallet & Co

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Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Watch movement & case manufacturing
Founded	1466 by Humbertus Gallet, registered as Gallet & Cie in 1826 by Julien Gallet
Headquarters	La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland
Key people	Walter Hediger (CEO) David Laurence (COO)
Products	Wristwatches, accessories
Website	Gallet Official Website

Gallet & Co is a Swiss manufacturer of high quality, professional-use wristwatches.

Officially registered as a La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland company in 1826 by then family patriarch Julien Gallet (1806-1849), the Gallet watch making dynasty can trace its roots back to Humbertus Gallet, a clock maker who immigrated to the republic of Geneva in 1466. Gallet-hist

Gallet is best known for its line of complex MultiChron chronograph wristwatches. Commissioned specifically for professional use by military and industrial clients with greater spending abilities that the average citizen, Gallet watches incorporated some of the most advanced innovations available to the Swiss timekeeping arts.

One of these unique watches was the famous Flying Officer chronograph. Commissioned by Senator Harry S Truman in 1939 for pilots of the US Army Air Force, the unique rotating 12 hour bezel and 48 cities dial made is easy to calculate changes in the time as a pilot flew across lines of longitude. Besides being the worlds first time zone calculating wristwatch, the Gallet Flying Officer was the first wrist chronograph to be housed in a water resistant case. Truman himself wore a Flying Officer during his term as 33rd president. After the war, the Flying Officer remained as a favorite timepiece of military and civilian aviators.

In 2007, an award winning design team was commissioned to assist the Gallet company in adjusting the utilitarian appearance of its professional-use watches to the tastes of the contemporary consumer of high-end timepieces.

Gallet Watch and Clock Making Dynasty

Humbertus Gallet (1430 - 1492) clock maker, immigrated from Bourg-en-Bresse to Geneva on 18 April 1466

Gonin Gallet (1543 – 1610 ) grandson of Humbertus Gallet, clock maker, Geneva

Claude Gallet (1597 - 1663) son of Gonin Gallet, watch and clock maker, Geneva

Jacques Gallet (1649 – 1700) son of Claude Gallet, watchmaker and silk merchant, Geneva

Philippe Gallet (1679 – 1739) son of Jacques Gallet, goldsmith & watchmaker, Geneva

Pierre Gallet (1712 - 1768) son of Philippe Gallet, goldsmith & watchmaker, Geneva

Jacques Gallet (1745 - 1806) son of Pierre Gallet, goldsmith, watch & case maker, Geneva

Jean-Louis Gallet (1774 - 1809) son of Jacques Gallet, goldsmith, watchmaker, watch case maker, Geneva

Julien Gallet (1806 - 1849) son of Jean-Louis Gallet, watch & case maker, registered family business in La Chaux de Fonds as Gallet & Cie.

Louise Gallet (1808 - 1865) widow of Julien Gallet, ran the company after her husband's death

Leon L. Gallet (1832 - 1899) son of Julien Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Lucien F. Gallet (1834 -1879) son of Julien Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Julien Gallet (1862 -1934) son of Leon L. Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Georges Gallet (1865 -1946) son of Leon L. Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Leon Gallet (1899 - 1975) son of Georges Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Pierre Gallet (1926 - 1995) son of Leon Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Bernard Gallet (1930 – 2006) son of Leon Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds

Wrist Watch Models - 1900 to the Present

• Desert Storm (Marathon & Adanac)
• Excel-O-Graph
• Flying Officer
• MultiChron 12
• MultiChron 30
• MultiChron 45
• MultiChron Astronomic
• MultiChron Commander
• MultiChron Decimal
• MultiChron Navigator GMT
• MultiChron Officer
• MultiChron Petite
• MultiChron Pilot
• MultiChron Pilot Petite
• MultiChron Rattrapante
• MultiChron Regulator
• MultiChron Yachting

External links

• Official Gallet Website