Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about luxury timepieces. Conventional knowledge might suppose that the more expensive an item is, the more durable and ...
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Rolex wouldn’t repair this, so I did

I took a vintage Rolex watch to a watchmaker for repairs, but the watchmaker refused to work on the delicate bracelet. I ...
Rolex is finally getting into the secondary market. After an initial rollout of its new Certified Pre-Owned program in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Denmark, and the U.K. in December, the ...
At Grand Central Watch, a watch repair shop in midtown Manhattan, owner Wilson Masache carefully inspects a Rolex Explorer II that was burnt up in an apartment fire. The watch is a tragedy: more ...
When most people think about what makes a watch tick, a battery is probably the first thing that comes to mind. How else could it run, right? Well, Rolex, one of the most famous luxury watch brands in ...
Continuing our exploration into the world of watches, we now look to one area of the watch often gets overlooked — the caseback. While it is true that the majority of the value of a watch rests in the ...