1685-As the French King Louis XIV cancelled the tolerance agreement of Nantes, other members of the Bourg Golan family who specialized in making gold ornaments and watches took refuge in their relatives in Geneva and engaged in their trade.
The sons of 1702- Philip Golan (1679 to 1739), Jacques Golan (1649 to 1700) and Mary Bouvier Golan are also registered in the jeweler and watchmaker's flower shop in Geneva.
1742- Pierre Golan (17 12- 1768) married Ms. Jenny Renee. The marriage contract records the occupation of the goldsmith Pierre Golan. The document also lists the occupations of Pierre's father Philip Golan (1679 to 1739), that is, making gold ornaments and watches.
1744- Jenny gave birth to a son: Jacques, who inherited his father's career as a jewelry and watch manufacturer. 1774- Jacques Grande (1745 to 1806) gave birth to a son: Jean-Louis Grande (1774 to 1809).
1804- Napoleon annexed Geneva and named it the Republic of Le Mans. Jean-Louis Goran became a French citizen and inherited his father's jewelry and watch company until his early death at the age of 35 in 1809.
1826—— Julian Golan, son of Jean Louis (1806 to 1849) moved the family business to La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center that mainly produces pocket watches. During this period, the company was officially registered as Gallet &; Cie company (Gallet brand company) has made a breakthrough in naming traditional enterprises after having a family leader.
1848-Julian Golan died at the age of 43. Later, the company was run by his widow Louise and his sons Leon and Lv Xian.
1855- Leon Golan (1832 to 1899) became Gallette &; As a paternalistic figure of Cie, he accelerated the expansion and increased the demand for more factory space by acquiring Grumbach, which mainly produces electronic watches. Gallet & ampCie。 Renamed Electa Gallet &；; Cie。 Produce Gallet and Electa watches.
1864- Lv Xian Golan, brother of Leon Golan, established the first branch of the company in Chicago, USA, and soon after that, he set up another office in new york. Jules Racine is the cousin of the Golan brothers living in the United States. Together with the Golan brothers, he expanded the company's distribution in the American market.
1876—— In order to cope with the competition from large American watch manufacturers selling watches in Europe, Leon Golan, Louis and Jules' Kul Vossier, Ernest Francie's Longines, and Heng Girard-Golan's GP White Watch set up Intercantonal Company to develop Jurassic industry. Thanks to the unified strength of Swiss joint manufacturing resources, the group can maintain its sales advantage in Europe. It focuses on the European and British markets.
1880- Henrietta Golan (1860- 1939), daughter of Leon Golan, son of Louis Kul Vossier (1825 to 1885), Emile Kul Vossier.
188 1-Leon Goran Committee registered the trademark of Gallet brand as a lyre symbol. Lyre logo is printed on the watch case made by La Chaux-de-Fonds Studio.
1882–Grand Company has formed a strategic partnership with Jules Naray Winery to provide the professional use line mechanism of Gallet brand hand-held timer and pocket timer.
1883—— Leon handed over the management right of Gallette Company to his eldest son Julian (1862 to 1934), but continued to participate in the operation until 1899 died in new york. The initials JG were added to the lyre logo of the Gallet brand, and the company name was temporarily changed to Julien Gallet &；; Cie to show control over the eldest son. Leon's youngest son, George Golan (1865 to 1946), is in Kul Vossier & Frères works part-time and helps his brother manage the company. By this time, Gallet brand company can produce more than 654.38 million+watches every year.
Bertha Napoleon (1893-daughter of Louis Philippe, heir to the family watchmaking company) married George Golan, the son of Leon. Bertha Napoleon, her younger brothers Emile, George Goran and his sister Henriette continue to manage Courvoisier Frères Watch Company. George Golan is a director of the company.
1895-Goran launched the first watch in the American market for public consumption. Because these watches are too common for women and too feminine for men, they were immediately rejected by the public. All unsold samples were quickly sent back to Switzerland for disassembly. Although this breakthrough innovation was initially blocked, watches were reintroduced in a more useful way during World War I, that is, telling soldiers the time in the war. This new concept was accepted, and soon many other watch companies began to offer watches.
1896-Gallet brand innovatively produced the patented railway pocket watch under the international ocean brand, which Timothy Eaton put on the market and used in the railway field.
1896- Golan won the silver medal at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva.
1899-On his deathbed, Leon Goran transported 43,000 Swiss francs (equivalent to about one million dollars today) to a small town in La Chaux-de-Fonds, of which 25,000 Swiss francs were used to build an international watch museum. In order to help the museum collect original chronograph watches, George Goran donated more than 65,438+000 highly complex and expensive watches sold by Goran, Electa and Courvoisier. Next, George Golan served as a museum for twenty years.
1900- Shortly after the death of Leon Golan, the company name was changed to Swiss Calais Watch (Calais Brand Company).
1905- Ge Lang won the honorary certificate of Lieri Exhibition.
1906- The company names "Gallet" and "Electa" have been registered all over the world to strengthen the ownership of Gallet brand and control of Electa brand. Under the Electa brand, the Gallet brand produces the highest quality clocks and watches.
19 1 1- Henri Nare Bourem, a respected member of the Jeanneret family of Saint Mir, bought the Magnenat-LeCoultre factory with the help of the Gallet brand company.
19 12- grant created the first watch with a full-size constant second hand drawn from the center of the dial, which was widely popularized. This innovation has proved to be very useful in timekeeping tasks, which emphasize seconds, minutes and hours, including measuring human heart rate. During World War I, Gallet's brand-new "scanning second hand" watch was distributed to military nurses and medical staff.
19 14- During World War I, the Golan supplied wrist timepieces to the British army. This early chronograph watch is an obvious time transition. Although it is technically finer and smaller than the traditional hand-held timer, it still retains the three-piece case, enamel dial and its predecessor's central button crown.
19 14- Golan won the grand prize in the category of Swiss National Exhibition Observatory held in Bern.
19 15- Golan supplied hand-held and cockpit-mounted timers to the British Air Force during World War I. This watch is produced in the Electa workshop of Gallet brand, and is named and marked with Electa.
19 17- Golan won the first place in the observatory precision competition of Neuchatel state observatory.
19 18-Nare-Bourem began to produce products owned by Excelsior Park. The name of this company comes from the trademark "Excelsior" registered before Nare-Bourem, and the letter change in the French word "park" is to urge Gallet to support the joint efforts of the two companies to focus on marketing American consumers. The cooperation between Excelsior Par and Gallet brand has led to the development of a large number of time recording mechanisms, including 40-caliber watches. These new timekeeping mechanisms are almost only applicable to watches in Golan and Yidong Park. If the production capacity permits, a small part will be used in watches of GP and Zenith.
1927- gelang introduced the "voltage regulator" and "dual-core dial" watches to medical technicians. The large rectangular dial of the second hand for dual-core dialing and the regulator reset function for scanning the second hand simplify the task of calculating a person's heart rate per minute.
1929–As Gallet brand developed a vibrant market for its new watches, the company survived the Great Depression by providing professional "tool watches" for military and industrial customers.
1935- When World War II was about to start, Gallet brand began to produce eight-day watches, ship clocks and military stopwatches for Canada, Britain and the United States. At the beginning of World War II, its annual output once again exceeded 10000.
1936- Grant introduced the first waterproof watch to protect the delicate mechanism of chronograph watch from the destructive influence of moisture. This new innovation has become the standard for many models in Grant's special chronograph series, including watches used by pilots in military issues.
1938- Senator Harry S. Truman's staff commissioned Golan to make a flight officer's chronograph watch for pilots of the US Army Air Force. This kind of watch provides a new and innovative combination. In addition to accurately recording events in the duration from one-fifth of a second to 30 minutes, it is printed with 12 hour rotating bezel and dial (dial) of major cities to enable pilots to calculate the changes when passing through the meridian. Truman wore a flight officer's chronograph made by Goran Company during his two terms as US President.
1939- Multichron Petite produced by Grand. Petite is one of the first timekeeping watches specially designed for female soldiers assigned to perform technical and scientific tasks during World War II. Driven by 10 ligne Valjoux 69, the measuring diameter is only 26.6 mm, and MultiChron Petite has become the smallest mechanical chronograph made so far.
1946- At the end of World War II, Leon Golan's father George died, and Leon Golan naturally took over Calais. With only a few changes, the appearance of Gallet brand military style watches can be transformed into fashion timepieces for athletes and civil aviation pilots.
1965- Grant introduces Excel-O-Graph. This pilot watch features a rotating bezel and a comprehensive slide rule, which can be used for navigation calculation during flight.
1970- Asian manufacturers began to occupy the world market of electronic quartz watches. Despite the ever-changing trends and practices, Gallet brand continued to produce mechanical watches for customers and survived the so-called "timely crisis".
1975- After Leon Golan died, his sons Pierre and Bernard took over the company. They bought Racine Company as a result of their resistance to the depreciation of the dollar.
1983- Yidong Park closed its factory on April 6, because of the lack of family successors in the predicament of "timely crisis" and the sharp drop in orders from partner Gallet. In order to continue to support the owner Excelsior Park's kinetic watch, Gallet acquired the company's surplus inventory and assets to make ends meet. 1984 Germany's flume Company tried to revive Yidong Park, but failed.
1984- Wayne Brothers, a Canadian distributor of timing instruments, signed a contract with Gallet to manufacture durable watches for the US government. In order to facilitate the first transaction, the dials (dials) of these military watches were once trademarks of Gallet brand (19 15 19 10), and now they are marked as marathons. Wayne Brothers continues to launch marathon military watches and related products to this day.
1990-Goran provided Marathon with 30,000 Navigator watches for distribution to the US military. Before the marathon fulfilled the contract, these prototypes were subjected to a hard test by the US government under the most unfavorable conditions. All samples exceed the strict requirements of maintaining accuracy and function under military combat conditions.
199 1 year-Pierre Goran retired due to poor health. His younger brother Bernard took over the company, which continued to focus on the manufacture of professional watches.
1996- Bernard Goran has reached a cooperation with B. Neresheimer Co., Ltd., which has more than 100 years of experience in manufacturing and distributing exquisite silverware and high-end luxury goods.
On this day in 2002, Gallet's factory moved from La Chaux-de-Fonds to Grancon, an urban area in Vaud, which is nearly an hour away from Geneva. Walter Hediger, a member of Nares Harmo family, became the CEO of Gallet.
2004-Company activities are concentrated near Zurich. Bernard Goran was active in the company until his death in 2006.
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2009-Gallet &; Co*** co-sponsored the exhibition "Time and Exploration" held at the National Watch Museum. The exhibition highlights the importance of time and opportunity in the field of exploration and navigation.