Gallet Watch and Clock Making Dynasty
- Humbertus Gallet (1430–1492) clock maker, became a citizen of Geneva on 18 April 1466
- Gonin Gallet (1543–1610 ) grandson of Humbertus Gallet, clock maker, Geneva
- Claude Gallet (1605–1675) son of Gonin Gallet, watch and clock maker, Geneva
- Jacques Gallet (1649–1700) son of Claude Gallet, watchmaker and silk merchant, Geneva
- Philippe Gallet (1679–1739) son of Jacques Gallet, goldsmith & watchmaker, Geneva, began his apprenticeship with Simon Duteil on 8 April 1692
- Pierre Gallet (1712–1768) son of Philippe Gallet, goldsmith & watchmaker, Geneva
- Jeremie Gallet (1729–1763) son of Pierre Gallet, watchmaker, apprenticed under Benedict de Rabours in 1745, Geneva
- Jacques Gallet (1745–1806) son of Pierre Gallet, goldsmith, watch & case maker, Geneva
- Jean-Louis Gallet (1774–1809) son of Jacques Gallet, goldsmith, watchmaker, watch case maker, Geneva
- Julien Gallet (1806–1849) son of Jean-Louis Gallet, watch & case maker, registered family business in La Chaux de Fonds as Gallet & Cie.
- Louise Gallet (1808–1865) widow of Julien Gallet, ran the company after her husband's death
- Léon L. Gallet (1832–1899) son of Julien Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds
- Lucien F. Gallet (1834–1879) son of Julien Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds & Geneva
- Julien Gallet (1862–1934) son of Leon L. Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds
- Georges Gallet (1865–1946) son of Leon L. Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds (together with wife Berthe Courvoisier Gallet and brother-in-law Émile Courvoisier, controlled the Courvoisier Frères watch company)
- Léon Gallet (1899–1975) son of Georges and Berthe (née Courvoisier) Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds
- Pierre Gallet (1926–1995) son of Leon Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds
- Bernard L. Gallet (1930–2006) son of Leon Gallet, watchmaker, La Chaux de Fonds
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