A Brief History of Gay Frèr: Bracelet Kg | Bob's Watch Rolex Blog

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY FRèR
• DEFIANT HARRY KANE WEARS KSH.79M ROLEX WATCH WH GAY PRI LOURS QATAR
• HISTORIL PERSPECTIV GAY FRèR, MUCH MORE THAN A SIMPLE MANUFACTURER OF WATCH BRACELETS
• GAY FRèR – THE BRACELET BROTHERS
• GAY WATCH ROLEX
• THE SUCCS STORY OF THE MANUFACTURER GAY FRèR
• GAY FRèR — THE MOST IMPACTFUL PARTS SUPPLIER OF ALL?

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY FRèR

Among the was Gay Frèr, a well-known metal bracelet manufacturer, who supplied bracelets to a number of proment, luxury timepiece pani. Found 1835 by Jean-Pierre Gay and Gaspard Tissot, Gay Frèr origally specialized the productn of handma, gold chas for e wh pocket watch and other var jewelry-related applitns. Throughout much of the 20th century, Gay Frèr played a major role wh the wristwatch dtry as one of s largt and most highly regard bracelet manufacturers.

Gay Frèr’ fluence is unmistakably lked to Rolex (Pictured: Cosmograph Daytona 116250).

DEFIANT HARRY KANE WEARS KSH.79M ROLEX WATCH WH GAY PRI LOURS QATAR

There were other pani that manufactured metal bracelets for wristwatch; however the novative signs of Gay Frèr, along wh the pany’s nsistently strong build, qualy and craftsmanship, earned them the dtry’s top spot.

Addnally, durg the 1930s, nsumer preferenc shifted towards watch wh stals steel s, which gave Gay Frèr an addnal advantage.

Stals steel is signifintly harr and more difficult to shape than gold, and nsequently requir a level of expertise craftsmanship that only a few pani at the time (other than Gay Frèr) would have been able to supply, let alone manufacture on a large sle.

HISTORIL PERSPECTIV GAY FRèR, MUCH MORE THAN A SIMPLE MANUFACTURER OF WATCH BRACELETS

By the 1970s, Gay Frèr had already built a strong reputatn as both a manufacturer and a bracelet signer. Due to their unrivaled expertise and experience manufacturg watch bracelets om stals steel, Aumars Piguet approached Gay Frèr for the tegrated bracelet on their now-inic Royal Oak. Four years later, Patek Philippe also reached out to Gay Frèr; however this time was for help wh the bracelet on their newly-signed petor to Aumars Piguet’s Royal Oak: the Ntil.

At the height of s succs durg the mid 1970s, Gay Frèr was nng the largt factory Geneva and employg over 500 craftsmen and specialists. In addn to bracelets for wristwatch, Gay Frèr also manufactured a variety of other jewelry-related products. While was Gay Frèr that manufactured the very firsts metal bracelets for Rolex durg the 1930s, thgs would ultimately e full circle for the legendary bracelet maker 1998, when Rolex purchased the historic pany as part of an ongog effort to acquire past suppliers and vertilly tegrate all aspects of their productn procs.

GAY FRèR – THE BRACELET BROTHERS

Possibly the most imprsive feature about Gay Frèr was the pany’s abily to produce a seemgly endls variety of wonrful and distct bracelet signs that would perfectly pliment an impossibly diverse range of wristwatch. Throughout their long and illtr history, Gay Frèr manufactured bracelets for everythg om nservatively signed drs watch of the 1950s, to chunky and overtly sporty chronographs om the 1970s. Rolex Gay Frèr Bracelets.

GAY WATCH ROLEX

The pany Gay Frèr actually manufactured Rolex bracelets up until 1998, when Rolex bought the pany.

The vtage Rolex Oyster bracelets ma by Gay Frèr have the pany’s logo stamped on the clasp up until Rolex acquired the pany. However, 's important to note that the origs of the Oyster bracelet date back to the Bonklip style Rolex bracelets that were outsourced to bracelet manufacturer Gay Frèr durg the 1930s/1940s. Kane was earlier this week spotted wearg a gay pri-loured Ksh.

Wh a history stretchg back to the 1830s, the Gay Frèr story neher begs nor ends wh watch bracelets. Today, we vtigate what is undoubtedly the most famo bracelet maker, Gay Frèr, only to disver that the story go far beyond watch bracelets. The characteristic Gay Frèr engravgs on the clasp.

THE SUCCS STORY OF THE MANUFACTURER GAY FRèR

This is the story of those watch, prented ctn talogu today "wh origal Gay Frèr bracelet.

We've already discsed Gay Frèr as an early bracelet supplier to Rolex, one of s first clients the watch dtry. For The Crown, Gay Frèr would liver large orrs of Bonklip bracelets om the early 1930s onwards. They were also very simple to produce at sle for someone wh Gay Frèr’s expertise (more on that later).

If the stals steel bracelets are gged by nature, what mak Gay Frèr an appealg partner is the creativy of s signers. Intertgly, the trend towards stals steel s the 1930s allowed Gay Frèr to prosper as this metal is nsirably harr to craft than gold, and therefore requir a lot of specialized craftsmanship, fely one doma where Gay Frèr had special expertise. Arguably though, Gay Frèr rerved s ft work for Geneva's most illtr manufactur.

GAY FRèR — THE MOST IMPACTFUL PARTS SUPPLIER OF ALL?

1518 stals steel – to the wrist of s new owner is a Gay Frèr bracelet. Their bracelets are often ma by Gay Frèr as well.

But the brilliance of Gay Frèr was unrstandg the very fe nuanc that distguish a bracelet that pairs well wh a drs watch om one that pairs well wh a sports watch. 2447SN wh Gay-Frèr bracelet, cir 1969.

When the foc of certa manufacturers shifted toward creatg chronographs and other profsnal watch the 1960s and 1970s, Gay Frèr opted for new signs, and prented pani such as Her wh a beads-of-rice bracelet flanked wh Oyster-like fold lks. Gay Frèr offered a wi choice of bracelet styl at any given time. In fact, by 1976, Gay Frèr was much, much larger than Aumars Piguet and Patek Philippe.