Rolex is indisputably the biggest and most influential watchmaker in the world. The Crown makes the most important and recognisable timepieces on the market—and where it goes, the industry follows.

Like time itself, the universe of high-end watches is vast beyond comprehension. Its greatest paradox is that, in an age of cheap quartz movements and ubiquitous smartphones, when no one really needs ...

If this all wasn’t weird enough, it gets weirder. The new Sub is powered by a battery-powered quartz movement instead of an ...

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 ...

Two of my favourite watches are the original Royal Oak from Audemars Piguet, which I love for its slimness and lack of a seconds hand (it frees me from the tyranny of the BBC “pips”) and the Rolex ...

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

The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Land-Dweller, a striking new collection unveiled at Watches and Wonders 2025 – this year’s edition of the annual Swiss luxury watch fair – draws inspiration from the 1969 ...

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Rolex evoked the wonders of the galaxy with its Space-Dweller watch of 1963, followed it up four years later with the Sea-Dweller extreme dive watch and then set about catering for the international ...