Blog posts from Andy Callan
The Watch Collector Series: Buying and Selling Your Rolex
As watch collectors, there are no shortage of options available to you when it comes to choosing places to both buy and sell your Rolex. From a brand’s official boutique store to classified ads in a newspaper, each has its good and bad points. Obviously, the internet provides the widest range of options. However, taking […]
What Goes into a Rolex?
If you take a stroll west through downtown Geneva, cross the River Arve (by the ornate Pont Hans-Wilsdorf), dead ahead you will not be able to miss the colossal expanse of green glass that is Rolex’s Les Acacias World Headquarters. Built in 1965 and updated twice in the early 2000s, when CEO Patrick Heiniger condensed […]
The Watch Collector Series: Athletes and Their Rolex
Each year, U.S. business magazine Forbes publishes its list of the highest paid professional athletes, and the names for 2018 have just been released. While most of the stars that head up this year’s top earners are no surprise, as you scan down the line-up, it is interesting to see how several of the world’s […]
Rolex’s Most Important Milestones
It is fair to say that Rolex has done more than any other manufacturer to develop the concept of the wristwatch. Throughout its history, now comfortably into its second century, it has consistently led from the front with a series of groundbreaking innovations in both technology and design; pioneering breakthroughs that have formed the basis […]