Rolex is training college dropouts and disillusioned office workers to become watchmakers. More than 560 people applied for just 27 spots in 2024—a 4.82% acceptance rate, close to Harvard’s.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spencer Torok, 25, a watchmaker at J.N. Shapiro Watches in Torrance, recently graduated from Rolex's Lititz Watch Technicum.

You probably already own a Rolex, but now you can learn to repair one, too. The new Rolex Watchmaking Training Center, which opened in Dallas, Texas last year to foster the next generation of ...

Andy Warhol viewed his Cartier Tank purely as a design statement. “I don’t wear a Tank to tell the time,” he admitted. “I never even wind it. I wear a Tank because it’s the watch to wear.” ...

Open up a Rolex and you will peer into a hieroglyphic amalgam of gears, coils, and springs, underneath which is a Y-shaped bit of metal so Lilliputian that magnification is required to bring it into ...

Most people know Rolex as the gold standard of mechanical watchmaking - which is exactly why a Rolex that runs on a battery looks, at first glance, like a fraud. This restoration video covers a ...

Spencer Torok, 25, a watchmaker at J.N. Shapiro Watches in Torrance, recently graduated from Rolex's Lititz Watch Technicum. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Ever since watches began bringing ...

Led by nine administrators and instructors with decades of industry experience, the inaugural 18-month tuition-free course combines robust technical training with a comprehensive conceptual framework ...

Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...