Dear Joe, it is exactly the people you mentioned who are responsible for all my worries with Gallet. Since then I no longer want to collect Their watches. They are for sale. I have 2 on chrono24 and a third that I need to have serviced. But you told me that David and his girlfriend had stopped, and I agree with you that the Multichron Service in Florida is just bull shit. I hope that your wonderful Mk 1b, gray and white, is coming soon. I have one but it's a Mk1c.
Best Regards
Stephane Runge
In the dial up position, the watch is nearly OK. Fully wound the amplitude is 314 degrees and the beat error is 1.8 msecs. The watch is running about +1 to -1 seconds in this position. I am sure the beat error can be brought down to under 0.5 msecs with little to no effort, but I am not going to open up the watch myself - not soon anyway.
The dial down position is almost as good as the dial up position so this means to me that bearings on the balance are not binding in this vertical position for the axial parts. Dial down is 200 degrees amplitude and with a beat error of .8 msecs.. The watch is running about +3 seconds on this orientation. As soon as I put the watch in the crown down position, the amplitude drops to 160 degrees and the beat error goes up to 4.8 msecs. The time? The watch is -55 to -61 seconds (slow.) With the crown to the right and 12 o'clock up, the amplitude is 172; beat error is 4.8 msecs and the time varies from -40 to -60 seconds.
I now understand why Larry didn't respond to my complaints, he didn't have my watches. And they came in the mail from Florida.
So you created another group with Dan, Vintage Gallet, which sounds interesting. I'll sign up and we'll see.
Have you seen the 2 Mk1b on FB? Are they not overestimated at the price level? Although they look very nice