Rolex Watches

As I write this review I've only had this, my first Rolex, for 4 days (purchased the watch from the Plymouth dealership last week July '07). It's a Rolex DateJust with steel Jubilee bracelet, the price was £2,050 and represented the 'cheapest' or should I say 'least expensive' Rolex the dealership had in stock at the time. As I've only had the watch 4 days I can't give a review of it's time keeping capabilities but what I can say is that I find myself staring at it while it's on my wrist, in the same way I expect someone who has just bought his/her first Ferrari might constantly be taking trips to their garage to admire their car. I wear ...  Read the complete review

I've just bought my second Rolex. The first one, bought in Malaysia 22 years ago, was a steel GMT Master with the Jubilee strap. It cost me 400 pounds. It was never off my wrist from then till now; work, play, sailing, it saw it all. In that time it stopped just once, when the luminous coating on an hour marker fell off and jammed the second hand. I had it serviced about five times in that period. This is very expensive - about 130 pounds but they replace the glass (not synthetic sapphire on this model) and it takes several weeks. As I got older, the sheer size of the watch started to irritate - and it wrecked innumerable shirt cuffs! I decided to ...  Read the complete review

What is it about Rolex watches? They cost obscene amounts of money and yet they don?t keep time as well as a five quid quartz from down the market. In truth they are an anachronism, a throwback to a different world. One where cheap quartz watches didn?t exist and truly accurate timepieces were works of art, requiring vast numbers of man-hours to manufacture and many dollars to acquire. Up until the First World War, wristwatches were not fashionable amongst men. However Hans Wilsdorf, a German watch merchant living and working in London around the turn of the twentieth century was ahead of his time when he ...  Read the complete review

I dont know much about Rolex. All I know is that this is an expensive watch that always looks the same no matter when they produced it. So, its like an all times watch. But my family have a strange tradition (maybe rather weird!), once we finished our bachelor degree, the present from my parents will be a rolex. I have four elder brothers and they all have one. Since I'm the youngest (and the only girl! ;-) ) I'm the last one who owned a Rolex. About two weeks before my graduation day, I took my Mom to a famous shopping mall in my country and I pointed to Tag Heuer, I think I like that better compares to Rolex (Yup, the design is very different, Tag ...  Read the complete review

I bought my Rolex watch in Sydney, about seven years ago. I probably paid a higher price compared with buying it in Jakarta, where I live, but I wanted to avoid the risk of being sold a fake. Rolex offers many styles of men’s and women’s wrist watches, with a choice of different bracelet types and made from a variety of materials including stainless steel, yellow or white gold, two-tone steel and yellow gold, or platinum, with plain or jeweled faces, at a huge range of prices. The 31-jewel automatic mechanical movement, though, is the same regardless of whether you go for stainless steel or some more expensive metal. So, being attracted to ...  Read the complete review