MILITARY WATCH BOX

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BUT ALL THE INFORMATION AND PICS
WILL BE PLACED IN YOUR FREE APPRAISAL

THIS OFFER IS FOR A MILITARY WATCH BOX
CELEBRATING
Harold S. Vanderbilt
YACHTING & SAILING

I WILL HAVE PICS OF THE BOX SOON

INCLUDED ARE A HOST OF AWESOME
ARTICLES AND ITEMS

A PILOT SIGNED BY
Harold S. Vanderbilt

A MOST BRILLIANT WATCH FOB
WITH AN “H” AT THE TOP PORTION
[PURCHASED WITH THE PILOT]

A 1934 GALLET YACHTING TIMER

AMERICAN ENSIGN WITH THE
ADDITION OF A FOUL ANCHOR

AND

OTHER ITEMS

SHIPPING

USA 35.00  INSURED SIGNATURE

INT 100.00 FEDEX REGISTERED
INSURED WITH SIGNATURE

FREE PROFESSIONAL ONLINE APPRAISAL
INCLUDES ALL HISTORY AND INFO ASSOCIATED BELOW

AND

FREE ONE YEAR GSW WARRANTY

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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. The Gallet & Cie (Gallet & Company) name was officially registered by Julien Gallet (1806–1849) in 1826, who moved the family business from Geneva to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Prior to this date, operations commenced under the name of each of the family patriarchs.

 Gallet is best known during the 20th century to the present day for its line of MultiChron chronograph wristwatches. Produced primarily for military, industrial, and other professional applications, Gallet’s MultiChron watches often incorporated a number of advanced timekeeping innovations.

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.  

A wartime Gallet timepiece of particular renown was the Flight Officer time-zone chronograph (1939 – present). Commissioned by Senator Harry S. Truman’s senatorial staff in 1939 for the United States Army Air Force, this wristwatch made it possible to calculate changes in the time as a pilot flew across lines of longitude

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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.

• The first wristwatch with a center-originating sweep second hand for heart rate calculation (1912)
  The first YACGTING TI9MER (1914/5)
• The first wrist chronograph with a waterproof case (Gallet MultiChron, 1936)
• The first chronograph wristwatch with multiple time zone calculator (Gallet Flight Officer, 1938)
• The first miniature chronograph wristwatch for professional women (Gallet MultiChron Petite, 1939)
• The first chronograph wristwatch with additional 24 hour GMT hand (Gallet MultiChron Navigator GMT, 1945)
• The first 24 hour reading wrist chronograph (Gallet MultiChron 24, 1947)1896 Swiss National Exposition, Geneva — Silver Medal1905 Universal Exposition of Liege — Grand Diploma of Honor
  1912 Kew Observatory, London – “A” Class Certificates, Special and Series Prizes for the Best Chronometers at Neuchâtel1913 Kew Observatory, London – “A” Class Certificates, Special and Series Prizes for the Best Chronometers at Neuchâtel
  1914 Swiss National Exposition, Berne — Grand Prize in the Chronometer category
  1915 Regatta Yacht Timer 
  1917 Canton Observatory, Neuchâtel — 1st Place Award for Chronometer Accuracy

 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 Frères and produces chronographs.  On March 21th 1891 a sport stopwatch tirled “Excelsior” is patented by Alb, Jeanneret et Frères, it has a movement side bridge in the shape of a J – which becomes a trademark.

 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 .

 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.

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signed
YACHTING TIMER
GALLET

Handheld, mechanical pocket stop/timing watches were utilized as an aid to the popular sailing regatta’ for years before   specialized timers were built.  In 1914/15  Gallet Watch Company, in competition with Berna, introduced “the world´s first dedicated regatta-yacht timer/stopwatch”. This device included a high-grade, 15 jewel Gallet colum wheel movement with temperature compensation, bi-metallic balance and Breguet overcoil hairspring. It was a perfect example of the  fine work GALLET, Excelsior Park and, eventually, Jules Racine –Gallet’s Nephew– provided to the world.

Berna introduced the above Yacht Timer with 5 holes, as the timer counted each hole went red until they were all red.  Each hole being 1 minute. The above model is a Leonidas. After the release of both the Gallet and Berna Regatta  Timers, Breitling, Hanhart, Heuer, Levret, Minerva, Smiths and Tim and other known and unkown brands began  releasing Yachting timer/stop watches with  5, 10 or 15 minute *counters [*round register at top] and sweep hand counting the seconds from 60 back to zero. Later versions of the stopwatches were fitted to be worn with a strap around the wrist.. Both Gallet and Berna would sell watches to other companies who then branded their names on the dial.–and some om the movement.

There are
Excelsior Park
branded models also

In the mid 1930’s, Gallet and Excelsior Park   released what would be a major sailing regatta timing device design change . Unlike the first design built upon a standard 60 second timer with 5,10 or 15 minutes small hand top counter, and long hands  sweep seconds counter, they kept the long sweep seconds counter hand, removed the small hand and minute register at top, and, .in it’s place, a device specifically designed for regatta-yachting-sailing was installed along with it’s corresponding  time counting layout painted on the dial. Utilizing a now famous GALLET/EXCELSIOR “J” bridge movement,  the Gallet Regatta Timer was a hit…

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1934 GALLET YACHTING TIMER
AND FOB

GALLET AT HER FINEST

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB

FINISH IS FANTASTIC

NOTE THE “H”

YES THE J BRIDGE & LOW SERIAL

OPERATES AS IT SHOULD

7 JEWELS
JULES RACINE
SWISS
EXCELSIOR PARK UNDER DIAL

OUT SIDE OF A TON OF 1934-38 INSCRIPTIONS
THE CASE IS FINE COPNDITION
MOVEMENT INTERNAL CASE SEALS AS IT SHOULD

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
RAINBOW [YACHT]

HERE WE SEE RAINBOW

MORE MARKINGS
HAD TO BE A CREW MEMBER

HAROLD VANDERBILT
INFORMATION ON A REGATTA
AGAIN POINTSMORE TO CREW MEMBER

Above are 8 models from 1915 through 1970

Once again, Breitling, Hanhart, Heuer, Levret, Minerva, Smiths and Tim and other known and unkown brands were building similar timers.

Gallet and Excelsior Park
Gallet MultiChron Yachting
[WRIST WATCHES]

1st yachting wristwatch in the world 1945 the first wrist chronograph with regatta countdown was launched as the Gallet MultiChron A 17 jewel Gallet chronograph movement with temperature compensation bi-metallic balance and Breguet overcoil hairspring.

Harold S. Vanderbilt
[ AMERICA’S CUP HALL OF FAME ]  

A great-grandson of “Commodore” Vanderbilt, who founded the New York Central in 1869, Harold S. Vanderbiltt was always more interested in sailing than he was in railroads.

While only a schoolboy when the first SHAMROCK came over to challenge in 1899, Vanderbilt was destined to rebuff Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth try for the Cup. In 1930. As skipper of ENTERPRISE, he defeated SHAMROCK V handily in four straight races, marking the end of Lipton’s America’s Cup challenges. He skippered RAINBOW in 1934 against T.O.M. Sopwith’s ENDEAVOUR, one of the closest matches in America’s Cup history.

ENDEAVOUR won the first two races in the 4 out of 7 series and was ahead in the third race. Expert strategy and superb sail handling by Vanderbilt and his tactician, W. Sherman Hoyt, allowed RAINBOW to recover and win the next three races. In 1937, Vanderbilt skippered the “super J” RANGER, the last J-boat to defend the America’s Cup. As an owner and skipper of large yachts, he won six King’s Cups and five Astor Cups between 1922 and 1938. Vanderbilt is also credited with developing the yacht-racing rules that are the basis of those in force toda.

Harold S. Vanderbilt launches a new J-Class yacht

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
FOB BUTTON

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB INTERIOR PICTURES

IN 1857 THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB WAS FOUNDED.

The New York Yacht Club is one of the pre-eminent yacht clubs in the world. The Isle of Wight in the Solent has long been the epicenter of yachting in England. In 1851, a  painted black schooner arrived there looking to win races. This was the yacht America, owned by John Cox Stevens, the first commodore of the NYYC and other club members.

MORE INFO

(Photo shows America, winner of a race in 1851 in England
and a trophy that WOULD BECOME  the America’s Cup.)

Yachting, or sailing for recreational purposes, can be traced in the United States to George Crowninshield of Salem, Massachusetts.   Crowninshield, described as a “swell and a dandy,” was  a member of a prominent and wealthy mercantile family whose trading ships sailed between American and European ports during the early days of the Republic

John Cox Stevens was the first commodore of the NYYC and the prime mover in the America syndicate. The trophy America won in 1851 became the America’s Cup.

Gimcrack was the first flagship of John Cox Stevens. Later, he was part of the syndicate that owned America that won what became the “America’s Cup” in 1851 in England. John Cox Stevens and eight other progressive New York yachtsmen met aboard Stevens new yacht Gimcrack during the afternoon of Tuesday, July 30, 1844. Gimcrack was anchored off the Battery at the foot of Manhattan Island.

FLAG

Prior to the enactment of income tax laws in the early twentieth century, the federal government obtained most of its operating funds from the collection of tariffs and customs duties levied on foreign goods entering American harbors.  All vessels were subject to inspection, including private yachts.   As the popularity of yachting increased, the burden of customs inspections became tiresome and unnecessary.

In 1847, Commodore Stevens proposed to the Secretary of the Treasury that private yachts not engaged in trade or commerce be exempt from inspection.   The Secretary, fully aware of the manpower required to inspect each and every yacht entering a port, agreed to propose legislation that would allow the Treasury Department to license yachts and let such yachts carry a signal of the form, size and colors prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.

At the Secretary of the Navys request, the New York Yacht Club recommended in January 1849, “The American Ensign with the addition of a foul anchor in the union be adopted….”  Thus, the American yacht ensign was created.

REGATTA

The NYYC Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, NYYC’s curator of collections NYYC’s Annual Regatta 1868 by Currier & Ives. The clubhouse opened in Hoboken, NJ, on the banks of the Hudson River in 1845. Two days after the opening, there was a “trial of speed.” This became the Annual Regatta.On July 15, 1845 the members of the New York Yacht Club met in their Hoboken, NJ, clubhouse for the first time. Two days later they began a tradition that lasted: the club’s Annual Regatta now in its 154th edition.

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB BUILT IN 1899

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB BURGEE

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THIS PILOT IS SIGNED BY
Harold S. Vanderbilt
DATED 1927 THROUGH 1934
CENTRAL AMERICA, EASTERN MEXIXO
SAILING/YACHTING
PILOT

BEFORE THE INVENTION OF COMPUTERS
THE  MOST IMPORTANT ITEM ONE MUST HAVE WHEN SAILING
THE OCEANS IS A PILOT. THIS 424 PAGE  1927 PILOT W/FOLD
OUT CHARTS COVER CENTRAL AMERICA
EAST COAST OF  MEXICO’S EAST COST AND THE CARRIBEAN

THIS 424 PAGE PILOT COVER ALL ASPECTS OF THE SPECIFIC AREA
MENTIONED ABOVE. INCLUDING, WATERWAYS, TERRITORY
LIGHT HOUSES, DEPTHS, HINDERENCES, CLIMATE, RAIN FALL,
NAVIGATION AIDS, PORTS, CURRENTS, ROUTES, DISTANCES
BETWEEN COUNTRIES, CITIES, INCLUDING US CITIES TO
COUNTRIES, HARBOURS, 2 FULL FOLD OUT CHARTS, BAYS,
DIRECTIONS,  COASTAL VIEWS, WINDS, RIVERS

THIS PILOT HAD PERFERATED UPDATE REQUESTS UP TO 1934

COLOMBIA TO RIO GRANDE
PANAMA  COSTA RICA  HONDURAS  GUATEMALA
NICARAGUA

PRODUCED BY THE US NAVY

SUPPLEMENTS

SHOT OF A CHART

CHARTS ARE WONDERFUL

NOTE HOW THEY FOLD

THERE ARE TWO OF THESE

CHART

NOTE THREE REPAIRS FROM DECADES AGO
PAPER IS THE SAME AS THAT OF THE PILOT

THERE IS AN UPDATE SHEET MISSING
MEANING SOME ONE SENT IT IN
BELOW TO RIGHT OF FINGERS

PLOTTING CHARTS ARE MINTY

INFORMATION COVERS ALL ONE REQUIRES

NOTE THERE ARE FACTS OF THE LANDS. THIS WAS IMPORTANT
IN THE EVENT OF A EMERGENCY OR HAVING TO PUT TO SHORE

FROM RAIN FALL TO CHANNEL RIVER DEPTHS 

VIEWS OF THE COASTS

ANOTHER CHART

LIGHT HOUSES

THERE ARE MORE LIGHTHOUSES

INCLUDED ARE SAILING DIRECTIONS
TO FROM EUROPE & OTHER COUNTRIES

THERE IS A TEAR ON BACK INNER PAGE
BLANK ON BOTH SIDES

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CONDITION
– EXCELLENT- 
WATCH WINDS SETS & RUNS IN ALL MODES

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FREE A ONE YEAR GSW  WARRANTY

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SHOT OF A CHART

CHARTS ARE WONDERFUL

THERE IS AN UPDATE SHEET USED
MEANING SOME ONE SENT IT IN
BELOW TO RIGHT OF FINGERS

VIEWS OF THE COASTS

ANOTHER CHART

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB BURGEE

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
FOB BUTTON

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB BUILT IN 1899 IN 1857 THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB WAS FOUNDED.

NEW YORK YACHT CLUB INTERIOR PICTURES

MORE INFO

America was the winner of a race in 1851 in England
and a trophy that WOULD BECOME the America’s Cup.)

Yachting, or sailing for recreational purposes, can be traced in the United States to George Crowninshield of Salem, Massachusetts. Crowninshield, described as a “swell and a dandy,” was a member of a prominent and wealthy mercantile family whose trading ships sailed between American and European ports during the early days of the Republic

John Cox Stevens was the first commodore of the NYYC and the prime mover in the America syndicate. The trophy America won in 1851 became the America’s Cup.

Gimcrack was the first flagship of John Cox Stevens. Later, he was part of the syndicate that owned America that won what became the “America’s Cup” in 1851 in England. John Cox Stevens and eight other progressive New York yachtsmen met aboard Stevens new yacht Gimcrack during the afternoon of Tuesday, July 30, 1844. Gimcrack was anchored off the Battery at the foot of Manhattan Island.

William Lofland Dudley

Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president. Most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, and track and field events. Dudley would be the lightening rod in the added sport of Vanderbilt Football in 1890 and instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first Southern athletics conference.[ the precursor to the Southern Conference and modern-day Southeastern Conference]. Dudley was once a member of the Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Football Rules Committee.

William Lofland Dudley was known as the “father of Vanderbilt football,” as well as “the father of Southern football,” and is the namesake of Dudley Field, the first stadium in the South exclusively for college football.

Cincinnati (1880-1881)
Commissioner of Cincinnati Industrial Exposition (1881-1885)
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology (1880-1886)
Chair of Chemistry at Vanderbilt (1886)
Dean of Vanderbilt University Medical Department (1895-1914)
President of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1894-1912)
Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Executive Committee of the Football Rules Committee. (1907-14)
Namesake of Dudley Field.
Director of Affairs at Tennessee Centennial Exposition (1897)

Vandy’s first game

Vanderbilt played its first football game in 1890 at Nashville Athletic Park, against Nashville (Peabody). Vanderbilt won 40 to 0.

Captain and fullback Elliott Jones recalled the meeting which beget the game. Dudley called for a meeting of the Athletic Association, after Peabody had issued a challenge to play a contest on Thanksgiving Day. He felt the challenge a serious matter; that the pride of the university was at stake. In front of some 150 students in the gymnasium, Dudley explained that if the challenge were met, a new era of athletics would be created with the game of football.

From his Kansas City law office many years later Jones remembered: “There followed a general discussion of the whole situation. The difficulties, particularly the shortness of time for preparation, and the fact that regular football had not been theretofore played at Vanderbilt at all, were dealt upon. Many thought that it would be unfair to ourselves to hazard a contest under the circumstances. We knew that Peabody Normal had been playing intramural football for several years.

The predominating note, however, for discussion was that we had never taken anything off Peabody Normal and should not do now. Finally, P. M. (Pat) Estes, then of St. Louis, made a motion to the effect that the challenge be accepted and that E. H. Jones be authorized and directed to organize and captain a team for the occasion. s unanimously carried.”

Push button and the holder pops out

The holder is spring loaded

These were popular in the 1930’s aboard sail and motor boatss

The blue cord is attached to the portable ash tray

17J ADJUSTED

NOTE THE 25 YEAR CASE

CASE BACK HAS HARDLEY ANY WEAR