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- ▶ 25:21 David Rosenthal Well, that brings us to the other half of the Rolex equation, one Jean Aigler, based in Bien, Switzerland, which is in the mountains of the north of the country.
- ▶ 25:41 David Rosenthal So Aigler runs this movement workshop up in what is then a tiny little town in the Swiss mountains, and it turns out that
- ▶ 26:10 David Rosenthal And Hans had gotten to know Jean when he was working at Kuno Korten and kind of thought like, oh, hey man, this guy's a
- ▶ 27:57 Ben Gilbert And so he goes to Agler and says, the ones we're gonna sell, these are Wilsdorf and Davis watches.
- ▶ 28:07 Ben Gilbert And so he gets Agler to buy in on this idea that, on the movement, they're gonna put a W and D.
- ▶ 28:37 David Rosenthal The wristwatch vision hasn't really entered Hans's brain yet, even though Egler's specialty is these small miniature movements.
- ▶ 32:14 Ben Gilbert Now the funny thing is, he calls Egler, maybe he writes to Egler, I don't exactly know.
- ▶ 55:03 Ben Gilbert So Rolex and Egler arrange for a deal where in 1919 1919 20, Hermann Egler, who's the son of the founder, Jean, buys shares in Rolex, unclear what the purchase price was, that seems to have been lost to history, and joins the board.