My first 24-hour chronograph : Difor (circa 50's ?)

[francis 24/24]

Here is the story : I went to an auction, only to see, since I knew there was no
24-hour watch. A person was buying many watches and when he left I asked him
if he owns any 24-hour watch. He raised his sleeve : I have one here ! I asked him
if he would sell it and we made a deal :-!

[Dennis Smith]

Great story and great looking watch!

Looks very clean. Does it run well? What size (I guess around 36mm)?

[wemedge]

Good-looking watch. Wouldn't mind that in my collection!

we,edge

[francis 24/24]

it seems more readable than some actual watches which are larger !
I've only owned it for less than one day, but for what I observe it runs
amazingly well, actually, much better than I would expect for such an
old watch !

Cheers,

Francis

[bestak]

Great find http://forums.watchuseek.com/images/smilies/icon_good.gif

i didn't know that Difor made such watch and maty ?

[francis 24/24]

I don't know about Maty, but if you look in the Gallery of Andre's site
http://www.24hourwatch.info/
you will see that the Gallet is extremely similar, except for the hands.
So the question is : who made these watches ?

Cheers,

Francis

[tgarn]

I don't know about Maty, but if you look in the Gallery of Andre's site
http://www.24hourwatch.info/
you will see that the Gallet is extremely similar, except for the hands.
So the question is : who made these watches ?

Cheers,

Francis
It looks like that watch came in many flavours.

My example is labeled Guinand on the dial and the inside of the caseback
is signed Gallet & Co. Movement is a Valjoux 7733 with 45 minute subdial.

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8679/guinandv77338fp.jpg

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8435/guinandgallet0ss.jpg

Best regards,

Thomas

[francis 24/24]

I should try to open my Difor to see if there is a reference to Gallet.
Congratulations and many thanks for having shared the picture of
this very desirable watch !

Francis