Calling all Chronosleuths: a Mysterious Gallet

So, this piece came to me recently, and it offers a number of curious elements, the most compelling of which is the engraving on the back. With the help of fellow OF member @csburns, I think we've solved most of it, but I wanted to throw it out for those of you who enjoy a mystery. The one clue I will offer is that the original owner was based in England. Good luck and happy hunting!

It has a sort of CP-1 or 2 vibe, or maybe a Breitling 817 cousin. The hands look short. A quick google search did not reveal anything useful to me. Your thoughts?

It's all original, a Gallet produced as a pilot's watch in a Gallet-branded Yema Daytona case. I don't think it's ever been worn, or at least only a few times. It's all original, and seems to have been a one-off commissioned for a very specific purpose. That's the interesting part, the why of it, which lies in the engraving.

We think we've figured it, but I wanted to give other folks a shot, just for the fun of it. It helps if you break down the different components of the engraving and look at them line by line, but probably easiest to start at the bottom and work your way up.

Here's a clue: "Eagle 1" refers to a vehicle that was designed to travel immense distances, but never actually went anywhere.

It's a companion piece....
https://omegaforums.net/threads/who-knows-this-logo-on-my-omega-seamaster-automatic.117449/

Not sure. Never / hardly ever worn ? Center counting hand much too short. Badly done engravings, done in Europe. Not in the UK. Inside case back engraving with lousy spacings. What is happening with the G in Galley ? 2 extra strokes ?

RSPS: Remote Sensing Photogrammetry Society?

Im going to have a guess at travel great distance but not go anywhere.

Radio or radio antenna? Or potentially Radar?

The R in RSPS being either radio or radio.

As to the watch, not much i can offer

Good work! Here's the full details, and it took the better part of two weeks to sort this all out, piecing together information from various sources. What we're likely looking at is a watch commissioned as a commemorative gift for one of the cast or executives on a 1970s TV show:

Eagle 1 is likely the spacecraft from the classic TV sci-fi show, "Space 1999," the rest of the decoding of the engraving follows from that . . .
P.S. refers to the U.K. production company, Pinewood Studios, where the show was filmed. R.S. (we think) refers to Rose St., which is the street along which the two sound stages used for filming, L & M, were located.
IT refers to Italy (the show was co-produced by an Italian company, RAI). 4PD is either "for Peter Duncan" (a cast member) or "for the Producer Director" and 76NO is November 1976 (Series 2 of the show was produced from Jan.- Dec. 1976)

The original owner was an Italian antiques collector who bought it while travelling in Italy. He picked it up in Aarberg, which is very near the Gallet workshop in la Chaux-des-Fonds. It seems as if whomever it was originally made for, they never collected it, or if they did, it didn't leave Switzerland until the Italian collector took it back to Italy.

Further inquiries are out to Gallet, Pinewood, and surviving cast members to see if there is more information to be had!

The little "v" above the Gallet is standard on dials from that period (I assume they're supposed to be watch hands at 10 and 2), along with the fat-bellied "a" and asymmetrical "t"

Yes, engravings done in Europe, hence the "IT" for Italy.

Interior caseback signage matches reference pieces in font and size.

Likely Fred Freiberger, who produced Series 2 (Jan.-Dec. '76). Gerry Anderson did Series 1 (Nov. '73-Feb. '75).

Correction to that. I've now found more info and it looks like "PD" probably refers to a cast member, Peter Duncan.

This is based on several different sources, mostly trying to puzzle out how all of these pieces fit together, plus information gleaned from the original owner of the watch, who knew, for example, that "Eagle 1" referred to a spaceship of some sort.

Of aid here has been my own background--my father used to be an exec at United Artists, and had a fair bit of collaboration with Pinewood Studios in the 1970s and 1980s. He also used to routinely give Swiss timepieces as gifts to other people in the industry (this was common practice back then, not just in film and TV, of course). My older brother is also a commercial filmmaker, and I do a fair bit of on-screen work myself (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10135477/). This makes me familiar with, among other things, the terms used for various crew in TV productions (e.g. Producer-Director, since those two roles are often combined in a TV production, whereas on a film, they are generally distinct). It also helps to be, by training, a professional historian who has worked extensively in legal archives spending untold hours trying to sort out various cryptic abbreviations. Legal clerks abbreviate b/c they have limited time. Engravers abbreviate b/c they have limited space with which to work.

Anyway, this is, in the end, deduction, though deduction based on fairly extensive research. For example, the show Space 1999 was co-produced by an Italian company (RAI), hence there are direct links to Italy. I wouldn't put all this out there, as an OF member with a decade of good standing, if I wasn't confident of its accuracy. But if there is an alternative explanation that links together all the disparate elements (including dates of production of the various elements, geography, etc.), by all means, have at it! 👍

I hadn't even remembered that Peter Duncan was in Space 1999 ( a bit of a cult TV programme here in the UK)
He must have been quite young when he appeared and famously went on to present in the children's classic BBC programme 'Blue Peter'.
There is a bit of an easy fix to this question - as he is still active, why not ask the man himself?
Seems he has a panto company:
https://www.pantoonline.co.uk/

edit:
of course there is the risk that he might want his watch back......