In 1893, Nerses Papazian, drafted into the Ottoman army, escaped by jumping on a boat without knowing his final destination. He ended up in Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Ten years later, he opened the watch shop in Cairo that carries his name on the storefront to this day.
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