If the Rolex Submariner was the original sports watch, then the Explorer II was the original extreme sports watch. Introduced in 1971 as a timepiece for cave and polar exploration, this was a watch ...

At 11.30am on 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary hacked his way through the final snow slope to the summit of Everest, the wind tearing at his down suit, the air thin enough to make every step a battle.

Rolex’s dedicated adventure watch, the Explorer, traces its origins back to mountain climbing in 1953. In 1971, however, another watch joined the collection with the name Explorer II and a quite ...

The Rolex Submariner has been a mainstay in Rolex‘s repertoire of watch models for decades. One of the most faked models, and with scary accuracy, the Submariner has appeared in numerous variants from ...

Gardiner Houlgate has just auctioned off a very rare Rolex Submariner for a staggering $250,000 USD. The special Submariner was purchased by a coal miner from Nottinghamshire England 56 years ago, and ...

For 2011 Rolex offers a new Explorer 2 to follow up last year’s new Explorer. While the Explorer was bumped up to 39mm last year, the Explorer 2 is the Rolex sport watch with a modern size of 42mm in ...

Did we expect more? Progress at Rolex comes in either giant leaps or in barely perceptible steps – and usually the latter. And so it is this year. Today’s news from the giant of Swiss watchmaking, ...