ROLEX HISTORY

1905 - Hans Wildorf established London firm that specialized in watch distribution;

1908 - Wildorf opened new brand name: Rolex;

1910 - Rolex started to give official chronometer certification in Switzerland;

1914 - The Kew Observatory in Great Britain awarded to Rolex wristwatch a CLASS A precision certificate;

1926 - Rolex developed and patented the Oyster: first air, dust and waterproof model of watch;

1927 - Rolex Oyster crossed English Channel unscathed;

1931 - Year of Birth for Perpetual Rotor: self-winding mechanism that could be found in every modern automatic watch;

1945 - Oyster Date model was invented. This was a first watch that automatically display a date;

1953 - Rolex had created watch for diving: - the Submariner model;

1954 - Oyster Perpetual Lady date;

1955 - Oyster GMT Master was designed to make possible to check time in different time zones;

1956 - Oyster Day-Date;

1960 - So-called Bathyscaphe was created and plunged 35,787 feet with Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean;

1967 - Oyster Sea-Dweller was invented - waterproof in depth of 610m/2001 ft;

1971 - Oyster Explorer II was designed;

1978 - Oyster Perpetual Date Sea-Dweller was tested for waterproof in depth of 1220m/4003 ft;

1988 - First Cosmograph Daytona was fitted with a perpetual rotor;

1992 - A new model was added: Yacht-Master;

2004 - Submariner model celebrated its 50th Anniversary with special commemorative model which has green bezel and unique black dial.