Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
5 Mar 2026 Acquired Rolex
“This is where I think Rolex may have bought the shares back from Aegler. But again, we don’t know and we’ll never know because no one at Rolex will ever talk about that.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 5 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Rolex
Transcript context
…You think Submariner, yeah. Ooh, I’ve got some really, really, really fun World War II dive watch stuff in a sec, but before we get to World War II. Okay. In 1936—I feel like this is a big moment, kind of exactly what you were saying, as your competitors fall off a cliff due to economic hardship, there’s an opportunity if you have the right product that’s working well in the market to consolidate power—this is when Rolex goes to Aegler and says, hey, we want to take all of your production. Gruen stops buying movements from Aegler. This is where I think Rolex may have bought the shares back from Aegler. But again, we don’t know and we’ll never know because no one at Rolex will ever talk about that. This is also when Aegler adds Rolex to its name. The Aegler manufacturer of Rolex watches.…
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