Posts Tagged ‘rolex’

How many pieces are in a Rolex watch?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

high speed Rolex taken apart The video above is great in demonstrating just how many pieces go into these feats of engineering. At least 115 small parts are engineered to the highest of standards to create just the moving pieces of these works of art. Genuine Rolex watches are nearly impeccable, with smooth edges, and [...]

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10,000 feet under the sea the Rolex Submariner’s legend began

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Video review of the Rolex Submariner 09-30-1953 – The vision of Rolex to create a watch that could hold out thousands of feet under the ocean materialized when an experimental watch known as the “Deep Sea Special” was attached to the outside of Professor Auguste Piccard’s famous bathyscaphe FNRS-2. It was successfully tested to a [...]

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