BeckerTime BLOG

Rolex has been making watches for well over a century now, and have worked to make themselves the most efficient and self-reliant manufacturer in the industry. As a result, they have brought in-house every one of the many separate disciplines that go into building their components, until they have become the poster child for complete […]

Boasting a portfolio stuffed to the gills with some of the most lusted after pieces in horology, it can be a tricky thing to pin down exactly which is the most popular Rolex in the modern collection. Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Google and his list of search data, I’ve put together what, I […]

The 1950s had seen Rolex in an absolute frenzy of invention, giving us, in short succession, the Submariner, the GMT-Master, the Milgauss, the Explorer and the Day-Date. With a litany of iconic masterpieces like that, nobody would have blamed them for taking their foot off the gas for a while in order to catch their […]

Although Rolex withstood the quartz crisis of the 1970s better than any of its compatriots, the decade still stands as perhaps the darkest days the traditional watch industry has ever had to face. With André Heiniger at the helm, only the second CEO in the company’s history following the death of founder Hans Wilsdorf, they […]