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Rolex watches were founded in the late 1920's. Since then Rolex watches have been responsible for most of the horological innovations of the last century:first wrist watch, first automatic watch and the first waterproof watches , rolex watches specialise in the production of high-precision wristwatches and chronometers. Interestingly rolex watches were the first to launch the wrist watch on the market, the first to produce a truly waterproof watch case (watches: rolex OYSTER) and the first to invent the rotor selfwinding mechanism (watches: rolex PERPETUAL) which was the forerunner of the thousands of automatic rolex watches produced in Switzerland today. To date, rolex watches have produced nearly 400,000 Officially Certified wrist watch Chronometers, nearly 2/3rds as many as the entire Swiss rolex watch industry combined. In I957 rolex watches produced 92% of all the ladies' chronometers made in Switzerland. Rolex watches are worn by many of the most famous men of our time. This naturally entails a long production period and, as a result, increased production costs. rolex watches is not, however, a mass-produced watch and never will be. Rolex daytona watchesare interested made to the highest quality production and carry a 7 year waiting list. Rolex watches are possibly the best known in the world. Infact the name Rolex was chosen by Wilsdorf to be pronounceable by all major economics nations, giving some idea of his confidence in the product. Unfortunately the emergence of the Far Eastern nations has confounded his ideal somewhat, as their dialect limits the use of the letter ' L '. It has hardly had an effect on their profile, their quality speaks for itself.

The company was originally founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Henry Winter in the United Kingdom. Before the war they were based in London, with a repair centre built on Winters land in Bexley Kent. Still the present site of their U.K service division and stock holding facility.

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