Rolex brand’s history and its founder Hans Wilsdorf (Hans Wilsdorf) closely linked to the name. 1881 born in Bavaria, a city of his youth on the involvement in international business. The beginning of the business of making cultured pearls, 19-year-old home Ruishilaxia Defen (La Chaux-de-Fonds), watch for a special export factories as their agent.
In 1905, he founded his own business, called “Wilsdorf and David’s” (Wilsdorf and Davis), is the one primarily responsible for sales of watches the company, but he also developed self-made watches. (more…)