Horological Meandering

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...  

A quiet giant.

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 😄.... Cheers, Filip

But thanks for that Filip … Nicolas, can I post it to the GP forum as well or can not repost twice? Maybe I change it a bit?

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 … Meylan.

The internet. I’m 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

GP website and such does not mention anything about Desco. Zero. They mention Otto Graef and Macaluso but it’s implied that there was nothing in-between AP chronicles website mentions Desco.

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...