British intelligence once suspected Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex founder, of Nazi ties. Secret files reveal MI5's concerns during ...

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

Newly declassified MI5 files reveal that Hans Wilsdorf, the German-born founder of Rolex, was once suspected of strong Nazi ...

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

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

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

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

Rolex's history began in the early 1900s thanks to a man named Hans Wilsdorf. Wilsdorf was only 24 years old when he began a luxury watch empire that would later become known throughout the world.

Last year, Rolex grabbed headlines when it unveiled its Perpetual 1908 dress watch collection, named in honor of the year Hans Wilsdorf founded the iconic Swiss company.

When founder Hans Wilsdorf came up with the name “Rolex” in 1908, he couldn’t have known the resonance that otherwise meaningless word would have a century later. By 1931, when the brand ...