{"id":23758,"date":"2018-12-17T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/?p=23758"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:47:10","slug":"rolex-launches-rolex-org-communicate-history-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/breaking-news\/rolex-launches-rolex-org-communicate-history-philanthropy.html","title":{"rendered":"Rolex launches Rolex.org to communicate its history and philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolex is notoriously a highly-secretive company, which is why it is notable and interesting that the company just launched Rolex.org, a new website to describe the company\u2019s history and its philanthropic projects. When asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/about-rolex.html\">about Rolex<\/a>, Paul Altieri, stated in the <em>New York Times<\/em> last year, \u201cNo one knows who runs it. I don\u2019t think they started out purposefully being the Greta Garbo of the watch industry, but it works in their favor. If they can\u2019t control it, they don\u2019t want to be a part of it.\u201d This website marks an interesting move for the company at a time when Rolex sales seem to be at an all-time high with demand for most steel sports models such as the Daytona and GMT-Master II far outstripping supply.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vooDhbcZSYA\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Rolex\u2019s History<\/h2>\n<p>For myself, the most interesting and exciting part of the Rolex.org website is the outstanding video about Hans Wilsdorf, \u201cthe man behind the crown\u201d who founded Rolex. Those that are seriously into watches and Rolex may be familiar with the name, but very few know much about him. This video describes his journey from his birth in Bavaria in 1881 to how he came up with the name Rolex (a genie whispered \u201cRolex\u201d into his ear while he was riding a London bus one morning) to the development of the first water-resistant wristwatch in 1926 to the 1931 introduction of the Oyster Perpetual, the company\u2019s first self-winding (also known as \u201cautomatic\u201d) watch with its water-resistant case.<\/p>\n<p>I was particularly glad to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/rolex-info\/rolex-waterproof-resistant-watch.html\">Mercedes Gleitze<\/a> get appropriate attention in the video. In 1927, Gleitze became the first British woman to swim the English Channel and she wore an Oyster for her journey. The journey was an international news event and Rolex took out a full-page advertisement in the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> noting the company\u2019s participation in the event and the watch\u2019s continued excellent functioning after the conclusion of Gleitze\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n<p>Today, few people are aware of Gleitze and her importance to Rolex\u2019s history. It is quite possible that had Gleitze not worn that Rolex or failed on her journey, that Rolex would have not gained the acclaim the company would or even that the company would have gone the way of so many other Swiss watch companies at the time and have vanished into obscurity An interesting note: Gleitze\u2019s watch, in my opinion the most important Rolex in existence in terms of the company\u2019s history, sold for only 17,038 GBP at Christie\u2019s in London on June 21, 2000 (https:\/\/www.christies.com\/lotfinder\/lot\/an-historically-important-and-very-early-waterproof-1817519-details.aspx). It was consigned by a descendant of Gleitze and previously was exhibited at the Rolex 50th Anniversary Reception in Greenwich, United Kingdom on September 22, 1976. One can only imagine what the watch would sell for today at auction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23767\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23767 size-full\" title=\"Rolex.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007.png\" alt=\"Rolex.org\" width=\"1038\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007.png 1038w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007-1024x672.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-17_1007-579x380.png 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a screenshot of the Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 program. (Credit: Rolex Mentor Protege)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Rolex\u2019s Philanthropy<\/h2>\n<p>The other key aspect of Rolex.org is the focus on the company\u2019s good works, particularly its focus on supporting the environment, science, and arts as well as the Rolex Awards for Enterprise and Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 program. These initiatives all have their own dedicated pages on Rolex.org, but I found one page particularly interesting: the page describing Rolex\u2019s efforts to train watchmakers in America through the founding of the Lititz Watch Technicum in 2001 and the company\u2019s full support of the school for training watchmakers. The Technicum is located in rural Pennsylvania and Rolex created the school to help address the shortage of trained watchmakers in the U.S., a forward-thinking effort since the company needs trained watchmakers around the world to keep its products in good order into the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Rolex Awards for Enterprise were something I had heard of previously, but I was unclear of any details about them. Rolex created this awards program in 1976 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Oyster watch and to support exceptional individuals around the world with little access for traditional funding that were responding to major human challenges with innovative. Rolex has selected over 140 Laureates from all walks of life and the program reminds me in some ways of the MacArthur \u2018Genius\u2019 Grants fellowship program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22584\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22584\" title=\"GMT-master II 126710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2.jpg\" alt=\"GMT-master II 126710\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2.jpg 5760w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobswatches.com\/rolex-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5D3_1328-2-570x380.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The latest and greatest from Rolex.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>It is interesting that Rolex, having perhaps its best sales year in history, would go to the effort of launching what is clearly an expensive website and series of videos dedicated to the company\u2019s history and its philanthropy. The company even introduced a Twitter account as part of the Rolex.org effort, the first time the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@ROLEX\">company has joined Twitter<\/a>. However, Rolex has always been forward thinking and perhaps can sense the frustrations of some customers and retailers upset about not being able to acquire Rolex watches, so this could be an effort to build goodwill based on good works. Regardless, I am thrilled to see Rolex paying attention to promoting its history and I expect many lovers of vintage Rolex watches feel the same way. And although when Hans Wilsdorf exhorted his employees to \u201cproduce nothing but beautiful work\u201d he was no doubt referring to wristwatches, Rolex.org can also be described as a \u201cbeautiful work\u201d and worthy of exploration by all those that love the five-pointed crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolex is notoriously a highly-secretive company, which is why it is notable and interesting that the company just launched Rolex.org, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":23764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2150],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[2288],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rolex launches Rolex.org to communicate its history and philanthropy - Bob&#039;s Watches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Swiss watchmaking giant launched a new website to honor the one and only Hans Wilsdorf. 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