In 1936 Gallet purchased the rights to the waterproof wristwatch case produced by Schmitz Frères & Cie. By modifying the case with sealed gasket pushers, Gallet was able to produce […]
Last year I wrote about finding a chocolate Speedmaster 145.022-69 which originally belonged to Milt Shirley: an artist, a pilot, and mayor of Amelia Island, Florida. Milt, an environmental engineer by trade, has […]
One sleepless night in 2014 I was meandering around the internet looking for no watch in particular, when I came across a European classified ad for a “1960 Breitling”. I knew immediately from the […]
This watch first arrived in a unique condition. The pushers were corroded past the point of functionality, so the chronograph ran constantly. There was a thick messy layer of gummy black […]
