Crowning Glory: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Rolex

Rolex has been called “the only watch that matters.” And that’s an opinion held not only by those people — like mountain climbers and deep-sea divers — who need a reliable and durable timepiece, but by investors. Handmade in the Swiss tradition using the finest materials available, a Rolex is among those rarest of things — a manufactured item that can actually appreciate in value as it ages.