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20 unusual facts about Rolex


Amanda Blumenherst

She attended high school at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, where she was a four-time Rolex All-American and was the third-ranked national recruit as a senior.

Automatic watch

The Rolex Watch Company improved Harwood's design in 1930 and used it as the basis for the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, in which the centrally mounted semi-circular weight could rotate through a full 360° rather than the 300° of the 'bumper' winder.

Career Transition For Dancers

Sponsored by Rolex, the gala features leading dancers and actors as hosts, presenters, and performers.

Christian and Nick Candy

One Hyde Park: The Residences of Mandarin Oriental, London, was constructed in 4 years after obtaining planning permission in 2006, with the finished development housing 3 retail boutiques: Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank.

Cynthia Gregory

She has been featured in advertising campaigns for American Express (“Do you know me? You know my toes!”), Raytheon, and Rolex.

Darius Grala

Grala has been a Daytona Prototype driver since the class debuted in the 2003 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.

Doxa S.A.

Rolex invented and introduced the first dive watches with a helium release valve in 1969, which prevented this helium buildup.

Farr 40

The Rolex Farr 40 World Championships is the pinnacle event of the calendar.

Fashion victim

Extreme examples of this type of branding are found among accessory manufacturers such as Versace, Gucci and Burberry, scent manufacturers such as Chanel and Guerlain and watch manufacturers such as Rolex and Bulgari.

Francine Patterson

The foundation was founded with her longtime research colleague Dr. Ronald Cohn in 1978 using monetary support from a Rolex Award.

Gerry McCambridge

As a token of appreciation, Mr. Gregg presented him with a diamond Rolex watch.

Hamza Moosagie

The court found that Moosagie had bribed South African Revenue Service employees with expensive gifts including a Rolex watch, an expensive suit and an envelope full of money.

Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan

At the bar, Disher reveals that he just got a new Rolex watch that can tell him the times all around the world (When he shows it, it's 5:30 in New York, 3:30 in Denver, 12:17 PM in Los Angeles, and in Paris, time has stopped (proof that the watch is malfunctioning).

Noot Seear

She has appeared in advertising campaigns for brands such as Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Kenzo, Pantene Pro-V, Ralph Lauren Polo Jeans, Kenneth Cole, Neiman Marcus, Alberta Ferretti, Rolex and Yves Saint Laurent, where she was memorably styled as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci for the Rive Gauche ad campaign in 1998.

Oxana Zubakova

Zubakova stated "I got back late one night about 11:30pm. I came to the door and it fell down on one side. It had been broken down with force. I walked in and everything was turned upside down. The computer was missing, the telephone. I thought I’d been robbed. But I looked at the shelf where my watches were – there were some expensive ones such as Rolex and Cartier – and they were still there."

Rolex Sweep

The second hand of most Rolex watches, like the second hand of any watch with a mechanical movement, moves in intervals measuring a fraction of a second, such that the second hand appears to "sweep."

SS City of Cairo

These, along with Master William Rogerson's Rolex watch, would be needed for navigation, and this would require the boats to remain together.

Tetsuo Nagata

Nagata was also Director of Photography for commercials such companies as Rolex, Clinique and Honda.

William B. Blount

Prosecutors also alleged that Blount bought Langford expensive gifts such as Tourneau and Rolex watches, totaling about $22,000, and luxury clothing during trips to New York City, where commissioners discussed bond deals with Wall Street.

Yellow Card Man

Tranh notices that Ma is wearing Tranh's old Rolex watch, which Tranh had been forced to sell for a pittance in order to survive.


2012 Rolex Sports Car Series season

On December 3, 2011, it was announced that AF Corse, Michael Waltrip and Rob Kauffman will make a partnership for the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Ballarat, California

The 1969 movie Easy Rider has a scene filmed in Ballarat; after arriving in the town, Peter Fonda's character, Wyatt, removes his Rolex watch and throws it away before he and Dennis Hopper's character, Billy, head east on their motorcycles towards New Orleans.

Banco Intercontinental

Colonel Pedro Julio Goico Guerrero (a.k.a. Pepe Goico), who served as Mejía's Head of Security and who guarded former U.S. president Bill Clinton on visits to the United States, got ten solid-gold President Rolex watches worth US$15,000 each and use of a credit card that the bank would pay off.

Casey Mears

The following season he teamed up with Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon on January 29, 2006 to win the 44th annual Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.

David Donohue

David Donohue (born January 5, 1967 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American race car driver currently active in the Grand-Am's Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class for Action Express.

Diplomatic Area, Bahrain

The mall also features a number of fine jewelry boutiques including De Beers, Tiffany & Co., Boucheron, Chopard, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Rolex, among others.

Fernando Echavarri

1st in the Tornado world ranking, 5th in the Rolex Miami, Miami Rolex, 3rd in the North American championship, 5th France Olympic Week (Hyères), Volvo Ocean Race in the Movistar, 4th in the Beneteau 25 World Championship Vigo, Royal Order Sportsmanship Merit, Olympic Medal of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Unión Fenosa Medal "best sailors of the Year", record holder of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Ranking (18 consecutive months), 1st Copa del Rey with Movistar.

Gregory Charles Wilkins

In 2004, along with his son Mark, they competed and placed 3rd in their class at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona at the Daytona International Speedway.

History of watches

His Rolex wristwatch of 1910 became the first such watch to receive certification as a chronometer in Switzerland and it went on to win an award in 1914 from Kew Observatory in Greenwich.

Jaguar R4

In the 2003 Season, Jaguar were sponsored by the following companies; AT&T, Beck's, Castrol, DuPont, EDS, HP, HSBC, Japhiro, Lear, Michelin, MSC Software, Mumm, Pioneer, Puma, Rolex, Volvo and 3D Systems.

John C. Oxley

A five-goal player, he won U.S. Open Polo Championship in 1983, the Cowdray Park Gold Cup with the Boca Raton team in 1970, the C.V. Whitney Cup, the Rolex Gold Cup, the America Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the Pacific Coast Open, the 12 and 16 Goal Championships, three Chairman's Cups, the Butler Handicap, the North American Cup and numerous Sunshine League titles.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Opinel knife

In 1985 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London selected the Opinel as part of an exhibit celebrating the “100 most beautiful products in the world”, featuring the Opinel alongside the Porsche 911 sports car and the Rolex watch.

Privately held company

KPMG, the UK accounting firms Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators (JCB), Lidl, Aldi, LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.

Raketa

These watchmakers have been previously working for Rolex, Breguet and Hautlence.

Rosario Gambino

Gambino made headlines again in 2001 when reports surfaced that in 1995 President Bill Clinton's half-brother Roger Clinton, Jr. had allegedly accepted $50,000 and a Rolex watch from Gambino's children.

Wearing My Rolex

An a cappella version of "Wearing My Rolex", performed by the main cast, featured in the original Royal Court Theatre production of Laura Wade's stage play Posh (2010).

Winsome Andante

His rider, Kimberly Severson, has taken him to many well-known events, and he has won the Rolex CCI**** a record three times.