We spoke to writer and historian James Dowling about his new book, The Rolex Legacy: The History of Rolex Through 120 Seminal ...

In the 1960s, the race was on to produce the first commercial quartz wristwatch. Rolex had decided there was strength in numbers and joined the “Beta 21” consortium, a group of Swiss watch companies ...

Rolex’s founder, Hans Wilsdorf, was onto something when he made his company logo a crown – it has remained the king of watch brands for more than a century. Its enormous brand equity is partly because ...

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Editor’s Note: The above taxonomy is Rolex’s own. For our purposes, we’ve separated the Explorer and Explorer II, as they’re two very different watches and occupy unique positions in Rolex’s overall ...

Spot someone with a Rolex on the wrist, regardless of the model, and presumably things are going well for them. But are there affordable Rolex watches out there? Given it’s the watch brand people turn ...

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