Declassified records describe Hans Wilsdorf as “most objectionable” and allege he may have used his position to spread ...

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

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'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.

Rolex discretion is legendary and has hardly changed over the years. Hans Wilsdorf, who founded the company in 1905, gave a single public interview in 1959 – a few months before his death.

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.

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 ...