1950s Excelsior Park 'Hour Decimal' Stopwatch Signed By Zivy & Cie

Why This Watch Matters This stopwatch will attract any collector’s eye because of its highly unusual decimal hour dial in a clean mid-century design. The Full Story Stopwatches cover an interesting part of horology in the purest sense; they exemplify how one can measure elapsed time in the most precise way. Historically, the Swiss watch manufacturers vigorously competed against each other to see who could create the most accurate timing instrument, but they also produced stopwatches and counters for specific purposes as reliable everyday tools. This example measures time in decimal hours, a usage often documented for timing billable hours for payroll purposes. Excelsior Park, established in Saint-Imier, Switzerland in 1918, was especially renowned for producing chronograph movements with superb quality, and provided its movements to Zenith and Gallet for their well-respected chronograph timepieces. Excelsior Park appears to have had an ongoing working relationship with the retailer Ziv