Rolex SA and its subsidiary Montres Tudor SA design, manufacture, distribute and service wristwatches sold under the Rolex and Tudor brands. Founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, England in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis, Rolex moved its base of operations to Geneva, Switzerland in 1919.
Forbes ranked Rolex No.57 on its 2012 list of the world's most powerful global brands.[3] Rolex is the largest single luxury watch brand, producing about 2,000 watches per day,[1] with estimated 2012 revenues of US$7.4 billion.
Among the company's innovations are:
The first waterproof wristwatch "Oyster", 1926
The first wristwatch with an automatically changing date on the dial (Rolex Datejust ref.4467, 1945)
The first wristwatch case waterproof to 100 m (330 ft) (Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner ref.6204, 1953)
The first wristwatch to show two time zones at once (Rolex GMT Master ref.6542, 1954)
The first wristwatch with an automatically changing day and date on the dial (Rolex Day-Date, 1956)
The first watchmaker to earn chronometer certification for a wristwatch
Modern models:
Air-King
Air-King-Date available for 1988
Date
Oyster Perpetual[22]
Datejust
Datejust II
Datejust Turn-O-Graph
Lady Datejust Pearlmaster
Daytona
Paul Newman Daytona
Day-Date
Day-Date II
Day-Date Oyster Perpetual
Explorer
Explorer II
GMT Master II
Masterpiece
Milgauss
Oysterquartz
Sea Dweller
Sea Dweller DeepSea
Sky-Dweller
Submariner
Turn-O-Graph
Yacht-Master
Yacht-Master II
Cellini models:
Quartz Ladies
Quartz Mens
Cellinium
Cestello Ladies
Cestello Mens
Danaos Mensuj
Prince
Official Website: http://www.rolex.com/
Tudor
Montres Tudor SA has designed, manufactured and marketed Tudor watches since March 6, 1946. Rolex founder Hans Wildorf conceived of the Tudor Watch Company to create a product for authorized Rolex dealers to sell that offered the reliability and dependability of a Rolex, but at a lower price.
Tudor watches are manufactured by Montres Tudor SA using movements supplied by ETA SA. They are marketed and sold in most countries around the world including the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Mexico, South Africa, many countries in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and countries in South America, particularly Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
Montres Tudor SA discontinued sales of Tudor-branded watches in the United States in 2004, but Tudor returned to the United States market in the summer of 2013.
Official website: http://www.tudorwatch.com/
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