Archive for the 'More News' Category

Protecting the “Swiss-made” Luxury Watch Label

Categorized Under: More News No Commented

Switzerland, home to almost each and every luxury watch brand in the world, is seeking tougher rules to protect its “made in Switzerland” label.
It’s not only luxury watches that the Swiss Government is seeking to protect, it’s all luxury goods made in that country, from cheese and penknives to men’s and women’s luxury watches.
It’s known [...]

A. Lange & Sohne Takes Top Notch Luxury Watch Prize

Categorized Under: More News No Commented

For the first time ever, the coveted “Golden Hand” award was given to a non Swiss luxury watch manufacturer. A. Lange & Sohne won the top honor at the recent 2009 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve event for its watch called Zeitwerk (as pictured). A. Lange & Sohne is a German watchmaking company.
For nearly ten [...]

Rolex to Honor Patrick Swayze

Categorized Under: More News No Commented

Pop culture icon Patrick Swayze passed away on September 14, 2009 at the age of 57. For almost two years he had been battling pancreatic cancer and all the while kept his head up and continued acting.
Swayze was an actor and singer-songwriter, but more than anything else, a dancer. His dance moves became immortalized in [...]

Kayne West Gets a Bad Rap… Will Rolex Also?

Categorized Under: More News No Commented

If you haven’t by now heard about or seen a clip of Kayne’s ridiculous and rude outburst last night at MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards, you will soon enough. Who does he think he is? His interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for “Best Female Video”, to say that Beyonce had (and deserved) the best [...]

Jay Z Rocks a Rolex Masterpiece

Categorized Under: More News one Commented

Jay Z is known for many things: talented rapper, husband of the beautiful and equally talented Beyoncé Knowles, clothing designer, record label guru, Rolex watch fan, and good citizen.
Today, September 11, 2009, in remembrance of the tragedy that struck our nation eight years ago, Jay Z is giving a charity concert, called “Answer the Call” [...]

Aniston Wearing Rolex Given to Her by Ex

Categorized Under: More News No Commented

Is it okay to still wear a watch or ring that a boyfriend gave you if you’ve broken up? This question is especially sensitive when it comes to engagement rings and broken engagements. Should the woman give the ring back? Or should she keep it? Does it depend on who broke the engagement? I think [...]

DJ AM Was a Fan of Rolex Watches

Categorized Under: More News one Commented

This past weekend a tragic thing happened; 36 year old DJ AM, Adam Goldstein, passed away. He was found dead in his apartment in New York.  DJ AM was a talented figure in the world of music and will be missed by many.
Almost exactly a year ago, on September 19, 2008, DJ AM survived an [...]