Declassified records describe Hans Wilsdorf as “most objectionable” and allege he may have used his position to spread ...

Declassified MI5 files, cited by The Telegraph, allege Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf held Nazi sympathies and was suspected of espionage during WWII. Rolex has launched an independent investigation., ...

The papers, stamped by British security service MI5 and dating between 1941 and 1943, describe Wilsdorf as "most ...

Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex’s founder, was allegedly a Nazi sympathiser and MI5 espionage suspect during WWII, according to newly ...

Rolex said it was well aware of the file in the National Archives and had constituted a team of historians for further ...

MI5 suspected that the German founder of Rolex was a Nazi spy, the Telegraph can reveal. Formerly classified documents at the ...

For 120 years, Rolex has reigned supreme in the industry, standing as a pinnacle of precision and luxury in watchmaking.

By 1905, Hans Wilsdorf created his own company using 'unusually compact watch movements' but it wasn't until 1908 that the company sported the Rolex name.

A young German orphan, Hans Wilsdorf, born on 22nd March 1881, who would grow up to change the world of horology forever. Little did he know then that the hands of time would propel him to create ...