Rolex's history began in the early 1900s thanks to a man named Hans Wilsdorf. Wilsdorf was only 24 years old when he began a luxury watch empire that would later become known throughout the world.

Predicting the future of global mass marketing, Rolex's founder, Hans Wilsdorf, conceived a business plan that would span technology, communication, organization, and worldwide distribution from ...

When founder Hans Wilsdorf came up with the name “Rolex” in 1908, he couldn’t have known the resonance that otherwise meaningless word would have a century later. By 1931, when the brand ...

Rolex: the grand creation of a German orphan, Hans Wilsdorf, who sculpted the horological realm and transformed it into an art of precision and endurance. Nucleus_AI 2826 Stories ...

Last year, Rolex grabbed headlines when it unveiled its Perpetual 1908 dress watch collection, named in honor of the year Hans Wilsdorf founded the iconic Swiss company.

An encore for last year's all-new 1908 Rolex Rolex introduced the Perpetual 1908 last year in homage to the year that founder Hans Wilsdorf named the company.

Wilsdorf died in 1960, so it must have been around that time that he decreed the clock be kept in good order by his company. Wilsdorf was a member of the congregation of the church while he lived ...