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

The papers, stamped by British security service MI5 and dating between 1941 and 1943, describe Wilsdorf as "most ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...