just a quick question, what did you pay at the boot sale for it.

Nimoligist wrote just a quick question, what did you pay at the boot sale for it.

It was £5. The guy said he sold it for that amount because he had no clue what it was a couldn't be bothered to hold it no more. So we thought if he couldn't find no information on it, it must be something not a lot of people know about!

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Nimoligist wrote just a quick question, what did you pay at the boot sale for it.

It was £5. The guy said he sold it for that amount because he had no clue what it was a couldn't be bothered to hold it no more. So we thought if he couldn't find no information on it, it must be something not a lot of people know about!

or unbranded and sold in bulks for companies to press either a symbol or a logo. Much cheaper than actually starting from scratch somtimes. gl though =)

This is actually really cool. This is an excelsior park yachting timer, and they closed shop sometime in the 80's due to the lack of family successors and a sizable decrease in orders of mechanical movements from Gallet during the quartz crisis.

Cool background on them is that it was Jeanneret-Brehm from Gallet & Company that made this brand in the early 1900's.

These are generally pretty expensive. Yours doesn't look like it's in good condition but you might still be able to pull 100 or so out of it. It looks like it's a 60's or 70's timer.

If I where you I would keep it and save it for retirement. It might be worth a million bucks, or it might be worth your original investment lol.

002 wrote This is actually really cool. This is an excelsior park yachting timer, and they closed shop sometime in the 80's due to the lack of family successors and a sizable decrease in orders of mechanical movements from Gallet during the quartz crisis.

Cool background on them is that it was Jeanneret-Brehm from Gallet & Company that made this brand in the early 1900's.

These are generally pretty expensive. Yours doesn't look like it's in good condition but you might still be able to pull 100 or so out of it. It looks like it's a 60's or 70's timer.

If I where you I would keep it and save it for retirement. It might be worth a million bucks, or it might be worth your original investment lol.

It still works perfectly fine. Thank you for doing that research for me. Better than what I found. I saw online that the watch that was named after "Yachting Timer" was orginally from the 1932! I agree with you that the background looks similar too Jeanneret-Brehm from the Gallet & Company. You helped me a lot! Thanks

002 wrote This is actually really cool. This is an excelsior park yachting timer, and they closed shop sometime in the 80's due to the lack of family successors and a sizable decrease in orders of mechanical movements from Gallet during the quartz crisis.

Cool background on them is that it was Jeanneret-Brehm from Gallet & Company that made this brand in the early 1900's.

These are generally pretty expensive. Yours doesn't look like it's in good condition but you might still be able to pull 100 or so out of it. It looks like it's a 60's or 70's timer.

If I where you I would keep it and save it for retirement. It might be worth a million bucks, or it might be worth your original investment lol.

On the Excelsior Watches it actually has "Excelsior" written on the watch. Any ideas why the one I have doesn't?

It could be a couple different things. When you look these up on Google, some just say Gallet, some just say Excelsior, and some say Excelsior Park. As mentioned above, this could be just a knock off, but there could also be another reason.

In the 80's when the Excelsior name failed, Gallet tried to revive it so they may have sold these with just the name "Park" on them.

Or it could be a REALLY early one, because in the 1920's, it was Park watch company that was making them.

Another thing I am reading is that in 1914, the US Navy Pocket Chronograph was manufactured by Gallet under the Jerome Park name for the United States Navy during World War One. I'm almost wandering if yours is one of these?

I would like to share this page with you. You tell me what you think lol. You may have stumbled upon something really nice.

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That watch looks really cool good luck finding how much it's worth

It would definelty be better if you take it to a pawn shop or a watch shop and get it checked out. A professional opion

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If so the website says it has a value up to $496

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