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And add a note that there is an open thread on HM instead? So GP folks in the future can refer to HM for further info and participation. Just an idea 🙏🏻

Just that this pertains to both AP and GP. Thanks guys.

Friends, Some news … a new discovery after some digging on my part. 🔍 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-i

I haven’t had a chance to review the PDF yet. I also want to pull up my notes and see how I got the 30 million CHF number. Would be great if we knew who the shareholders of the Sowind Group are today. Sowind is the entity that owns both GP and UN and sold by Kering to thr management and some key str

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.

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

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?