Gallet Chronograph Watch - MultiChron Navigator GMT

MultiChron Navigator

Introduced in 1943 (Patent Received - 15 Nov 1944)

Upon its release in 1943, the Gallet MultiChron Navigator chronograph was one of the most advanced and complex multi-function “tool watches” ever created for professional use.

Designed to fill the many timekeeping and time recording requirements of pilots, navigators, and explorers, the Navigator was the world's first wrist chronograph that simultaneously displayed both 12 and 24 hour time. The additional 24 hour or "North" hand made it possible to also calculate compass directions. An additional winding crown located at the 9 position stopped (hacked) and adjusted the continuous second hand, allowing for split second synchronization.

Due to the higher cost of this specialty timepiece, sales of the MultiChron Navigator were limited. As a result, this unique watch is a highly desirable item for the advance collector and one of the rarest of all Gallet's 20th century professional-use chronographs.

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Gallet Navigator with military specification black dial and tachometer and telemeter scales, white painted hands

variation of the Gallet Navigator with luminous numbers and hands

close-up of the Navigator dial showing the North pointing 24 hour GMT hand

The Navigator featured on the cover of "Chronograph Wristwatches To Stop Time" by Gerd-R Lang and Reinhard Meis

VARIATIONS (click images to enlarge)

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