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

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

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

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

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

The luxury Swiss watch company said that it hired a historian to investigate and will publish the results of the probe.The post Rolex founder suspected of being Nazi spy, per ...

By 1905, Hans Wilsdorf created his own company using 'unusually compact watch movements' but it wasn't until 1908 that the company sported the Rolex name.

My InsiderIt turns out that founder Hans Wilsdorf left some very specific instructions concerning a tiny church in Geneva, Switzerland before he died. The church in question, the English Church of ...

A young German orphan, Hans Wilsdorf, born on 22nd March 1881, who would grow up to change the world of horology forever. Little did he know then that the hands of time would propel him to create ...

The brand dates back to 1905, when Hans Wilsdorf of Kulmbach, Germany, opened Wilsdorf & Davis watchmakers in London.