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Fra Dowling:
"The names of certain retailers on dials have an interesting side effect; it is possible, through examination of these dials, to examine the rate at which Rolex moved from having a few dealers in Britain to being the world wide organisation we know today. The very first dials have the names of British retailers, such as Mappin & Webb, Owen & Robinson or West's of Dublin then we see the names of retailers throughout the British Empire. Jewellers in India, Burma, South Africa and Australia are amongst the dials shown here. Then as Rolex became more well-known, in the 1930s, many prominent stores in Switzerland began to sell the watches (although mostly to tourists); Gubelin, Beyer and Bucherer are some of the names most often seen during this period. Towards the end of the 1930s and into the early 1940s as Europe descended into war Rolex were forced to seek newer fields to conquer and so moved into South America; and from this moment on we see names such as Serpico y Laina on watches. From the late 1940s as Europe began to rise from the ashes of the Second World War; European dealer’s names begin to turn up again on the dials; Astura of Milan, Janus of Copenhagen and Türler of Geneva were some of them. However by the 1960s Europe had ceased to be the major market for Rolex and apart from the few select dealers in Switzerland there were no more European retailer’s names on the dial. There were still two companies whose international prestige was such that even Rolex felt they could not refuse their requests; these two, Cartier and Tiffany were the final store names ever to be seen on a Rolex dial. Even these high profile dealers ceased to be Rolex agents about 8 years ago. The high prices now obtained for any Rolex with either of these two names on a dial is due not only to the fact that these were the last 2 companies ever to have their names on a Rolex dial but also to the tradition and heritage that these two names signify."
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