MI5 suspected that the German founder of Rolex was a Nazi spy, the Telegraph can reveal. Formerly classified documents at the ...

Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex’s founder, was allegedly a Nazi sympathiser and MI5 espionage suspect during WWII, according to newly ...

For 120 years, Rolex has reigned supreme in the industry, standing as a pinnacle of precision and luxury in watchmaking.

Rolex said it was well aware of the file in the National Archives and had constituted a team of historians for further research.

By 1905, Hans Wilsdorf created his own company using 'unusually compact watch movements' but it wasn't until 1908 that the company sported the Rolex name.

A young German orphan, Hans Wilsdorf, born on 22nd March 1881, who would grow up to change the world of horology forever. Little did he know then that the hands of time would propel him to create ...

My InsiderIt turns out that founder Hans Wilsdorf left some very specific instructions concerning a tiny church in Geneva, Switzerland before he died. The church in question, the English Church of ...

When Hans Wilsdorf founded and registered the Tudor brand in 1926, he envisioned a timepiece intended for individuals leading extreme lifestyles. Wilsdorf mentioned that he had been “considering ...

Originally founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, England in 1905, the company registered Rolex as the brand name of its watches in 1908 and became Rolex Watch Co. Ltd. in 1915.