Gallet Rattrapante Stopwatch

Sure, Analog:Shift is a business built around the love of watches — mostly mechanical watches. But, in essence, it’s our love for timepieces and timekeeping in general that are the common themes throughout the items we procure. And that includes the love of clocks: pocket watches, travel clocks, and more. After all, in the couple hundred years before the First World War, personal timekeeping was all about the pocket watch, and before that, it was larger clocks that were front and center, horologically. We still believe a good clock — such as a classic travel model from the 1920s or 1930s — has a place in the watch lover’s collection. This particular timepiece is a vintage Gallet stopwatch from the mid-20th century. However, it's no typical stopwatch, but a rattrapante (or "split-seconds") model. Equipped with dual chonograph seconds hands, it can measure two events concurrently, thus differentiating between (and recording) separate lap times, for example. More complicated than your typ