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Cool trivia....
May 09, 2024,06:31 AM
But I've got to say, I'm way more impressed that you were somehow able to travel to the 19080s to corroborate this historical fact π.... Cheers, Filip
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GP and AP had the same owners
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-06:21
From the Archives ... What if I told you that the owners of Girard-Perregaux in the 1980s also owned part of Audemars Piguet? Yep, Desco von Schulthess or DESCO for short owned 100 % of GP in the 1980s. DESCO bought over GP from the daughter and son-in-la...
Cool trivia....
By: InHavenPro : May 9th, 2024-06:31
But I've got to say, I'm way more impressed that you were somehow able to travel to the 19080s to corroborate this historical fact π.... Cheers, Filip
π
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-06:33
ROFL!
By: amanico : May 9th, 2024-06:39
Filip almost as naughty as you π
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-06:50
But thanks for that Filip β¦ Nicolas, can I post it to the GP forum as well or can not repost twice? Maybe I change it a bit?
Thanks
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-15:32
Welcome ππ»
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-07:56
Desco is quite powerful. They held the distribution rights for AP for China, HK, Japan in the early 2000s. Not sure about now. I also read that they wantrd the AP CEO changed β¦ Meylan.
Could be. I got the pic from
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-07:50
The internet. Iβm not so familiar with ML. I googled ML 1980s models. More for visual impact than anything else. The Laureato and the RO are both actually from the 80s
Agree KMII. More to come.
By: SingaporeMarc : May 9th, 2024-08:40
GP website and such does not mention anything about Desco. Zero. They mention Otto Graef and Macaluso but itβs implied that there was nothing in-between AP chronicles website mentions Desco.
A lot of horological history
By: Weems@8 : May 9th, 2024-09:20
in your post Marc. I woke up and i was into the Citizen group. I open this app and saw your interesting post. I wanted to trade in my FC, and the party rejected my offer. I know they are snobs, but why do they advert? The mail was polite, so that is not t...