Rolex timepieces are among the most coveted pieces of jewelry in the world and as a result, those who wish to purchase one of their own must remain on the lookout for the telltale signs of a replica. While some of the knockoffs are easy to spot, there are others that are far more sophisticated. It all begins by knowing your seller and steering clear of online retailers who do not have a reputation for producing quality. If the company you are making a purchase from cannot provide a guarantee of authenticity with each sale, this is a sure sign to take your business elsewhere. Rolex crafts every ..read more

Servicing a Rolex is done carefully and completely in order to bring the watch back to its original performance and appearance. This procedure is completed by a certified Rolex professional and involves several distinct steps. First, the watch itself is detached from the watchband or bracelet. The technician removes the movement piece of the watch and completely disassembles it into its component parts. The case is also completely disassembled. At this point, the watch is in individual pieces, with no one piece connected to another. At this point, the actual cleaning and maintenance of the wat ..read more

Rolex wrist watches are the brainchild of an innovative founder, Hans Wilsdorf, who in 1905, at the young age of 24, founded a company in London with a focus on distributing these timepieces. He began to dream of a inventing a watch to grace the wrist at a time when it was not very popular. Somehow, he managed to convince people of the reliability of his new resolutely innovative timepieces that were equipped with small, very precise movements and were manufactured by a Swiss-based watchmaking company in Bienne. Thus the Rolex watches were created and production has continued till this day. To ..read more

Just imagine Apple unveiling a new iPhone, that no one could buy no matter how quick you lined up.  What if Tesla changed the 400,000 pre-orders for a newer version (Model 3) by manufacturing a few hundred.  How about if Gordon Ramsay launched a power-lunch restaurant that has only two tables. This gives us a hint of what watch lovers will come against when trying to purchase the Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona, which is due for release sometime this year. This contemporary update of (arguably) one of the world’s most collectible watches within the last 50 years caught much atten ..read more

A Practical Investment Investing in watches? Why would anyone do that? Well first of all because they are great collectables.  Like most collectables, they are worth a lot of money after a while. Special edition or limited edition Rolexes, in particular, are a prized commodity. Sure it sounds like a dumb thing to spend your money on, but it really is not. Not that long ago there was a Rolex that there were only two of in existence, and one of them sold for $7.3 Million dollars in a bidding war that lasted just nine minutes! That was ten times the watches actual worth. Rolex collectors wil ..read more

The end of summer marks the  running of the Rolex Swan Cup in Porto Cervo Sardinia at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. The week long event includes social events, shopping, and yacht sailing sales events hosted by Rolex and the Nautor Company.  Nautor has built the iconic sailing yacht designed by German Frers. The oldest Swan ever built the Tarantella will compete in the 25th Swan Cup races. The race is divided among five classes of crafts that are defined by length. Each boat’s length determines the amount of sail available. The competition is designed to pit the boats that have simi ..read more

Rolex watches have come to symbolize a merging of luxury and  innovation. Instead of the need to delicately handle and only rarely wear a Rolex watch, Rolex has created their products to be resilient and strong, while keeping that degree of luxury that has come to be expected. One of these innovative technologies is a high resistance to water pressure. Over years of developing wrist watch models, Rolex can claim rightly that all their wrist watches are waterproof and resistant up to the global recommended standards of all water pressure ratings.  A few are particularly designed for u ..read more

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