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Preston Bros14 K Yellow Gold Pocket Watch. 45 grams I.W.A.W Co. Electa Movement
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Description Year of Manufacture: 1850-1859 Serial Number: 17751 Brand: I.W.A.W. Co. Material: 14 carat gold Closure: Open Face Movement: Mechanical (Hand-winding)
Beautiful operational Iconic. Here is some info I researched. Courtesy http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/copyrightpage.phpGallet and ElectaA number of my watches have the movement shown here, which I first identified as being an Electa movement on the basis of the name Electa on the dial of the first watch I collected which had this movement. This was confirmed to me by David R. Laurence, Managing Director of The Gallet Group, Inc. as an Electa movement, and David kindly supplied the page scanned from a 1914 Electa catalogue shown here.The relationship between Gallet and Electa is somewhat difficult to understand, but it appears that Electa was controlled by one of the Gallet family, Léon Gallet. Léon had connections with the Freemasons and Electa is an important figure in Masonsic tradition, being the "chosen lady" to whom the Apostle John's second letter is addressed.Some accounts say that Gallet & Co. acquired Electa in 1855 by taking over a firm called Grumbach & Co., which produced watches with the brand name Electa. But the Grumbach name didn't disappear in 1855, and Grumbach didn't use the name Electa. Pritchard shows an advert by Grumbach from 1920, and Electa was not owned by Grumbach & Co. but was a completely separate company in Geneva. It seems that the true story is that rather than acquiring the Grumbach company, Gallet purchased a factory building adjacent to their factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds from Grumbach to accommodate increasing Gallet production demands.Gallet and ElectaA number of my watches have the movement shown here, which I first identified as being an Electa movement on the basis of the name Electa on the dial of the first watch I collected which had this movement. This was confirmed to me by David R. Laurence, Managing Director of The Gallet Group, Inc. as an Electa movement, and David kindly supplied the page scanned from a 1914 Electa catalogue shown here.The relationship between Gallet and Electa is somewhat difficult to understand, but it appears that Electa was controlled by one of the Gallet family, Léon Gallet. Léon had connections with the Freemasons and Electa is an important figure in Masonsic tradition, being the "chosen lady" to whom the Apostle John's second letter is addressed.Some accounts say that Gallet & Co. acquired Electa in 1855 by taking over a firm called Grumbach & Co., which produced watches with the brand name Electa. But the Grumbach name didn't disappear in 1855, and Grumbach didn't use the name Electa. Pritchard shows an advert by Grumbach from 1920, and Electa was not owned by Grumbach & Co. but was a completely separate company in Geneva. It seems that the true story is that rather than acquiring the Grumbach company, Gallet purchased a factory building adjacent to their factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds from Grumbach to accommodate increasing Gallet production demands.
Description
| Year of Manufacture: | 1850-1859 | Serial Number: | 17751 |
| Brand: | I.W.A.W. Co. | Material: | 14 carat gold |
| Closure: | Open Face | Movement: | Mechanical (Hand-winding) |
Beautiful operational Iconic. Here is some info I researched. Courtesy http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/copyrightpage.phpGallet and ElectaA number of my watches have the movement shown here, which I first identified as being an Electa movement on the basis of the name Electa on the dial of the first watch I collected which had this movement. This was confirmed to me by David R. Laurence, Managing Director of The Gallet Group, Inc. as an Electa movement, and David kindly supplied the page scanned from a 1914 Electa catalogue shown here.The relationship between Gallet and Electa is somewhat difficult to understand, but it appears that Electa was controlled by one of the Gallet family, Léon Gallet. Léon had connections with the Freemasons and Electa is an important figure in Masonsic tradition, being the "chosen lady" to whom the Apostle John's second letter is addressed.Some accounts say that Gallet & Co. acquired Electa in 1855 by taking over a firm called Grumbach & Co., which produced watches with the brand name Electa. But the Grumbach name didn't disappear in 1855, and Grumbach didn't use the name Electa. Pritchard shows an advert by Grumbach from 1920, and Electa was not owned by Grumbach & Co. but was a completely separate company in Geneva. It seems that the true story is that rather than acquiring the Grumbach company, Gallet purchased a factory building adjacent to their factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds from Grumbach to accommodate increasing Gallet production demands.
Gallet and ElectaA number of my watches have the movement shown here, which I first identified as being an Electa movement on the basis of the name Electa on the dial of the first watch I collected which had this movement. This was confirmed to me by David R. Laurence, Managing Director of The Gallet Group, Inc. as an Electa movement, and David kindly supplied the page scanned from a 1914 Electa catalogue shown here.The relationship between Gallet and Electa is somewhat difficult to understand, but it appears that Electa was controlled by one of the Gallet family, Léon Gallet. Léon had connections with the Freemasons and Electa is an important figure in Masonsic tradition, being the "chosen lady" to whom the Apostle John's second letter is addressed.Some accounts say that Gallet & Co. acquired Electa in 1855 by taking over a firm called Grumbach & Co., which produced watches with the brand name Electa. But the Grumbach name didn't disappear in 1855, and Grumbach didn't use the name Electa. Pritchard shows an advert by Grumbach from 1920, and Electa was not owned by Grumbach & Co. but was a completely separate company in Geneva. It seems that the true story is that rather than acquiring the Grumbach company, Gallet purchased a factory building adjacent to their factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds from Grumbach to accommodate increasing Gallet production demands.