Gallet & Co.

The Gallet Watchmaking company was founded by Léon Gallet in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

The Gallets' best customer and exclusive distributor in the US, dating back to 1877, was the wholesale dealer Racine. "Gallet Group Inc. - Gallet Geneva 1685 - History" (part 2), Gallet Group Inc., 2007, webpage: [http://www.gallet.ch/history.php?page=history&part=2&i=h Gallet-hist] .] Jules Racine, a cousin of the La Chaux-de-Fonds Gallets, distributed watches from the Gallet [http://www.galletwatch.com] brand, as well as with his own brand names Racine (since 1870), Jules Racine, Lady Racine, and Racine Royale. Racine also distributed famous American brand named timpieces including Bridgeport, Burlington, Chancellor, Commodore, Continental, Eureka, Mars, National Park, Security, Select, Solar, Success, The Governor, and others. While the style of these US distributed timepieces had cases, bands, watch faces, and hands tuned to the American taste, the movements were always manufactured by Gallet in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

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