Rolex is one of the few watch companies that probably belongs to the world’s best known brand names such as Coca-Cola, Apple, Google, BMW, and so on. That is probably also one of the reasons why a Rolex watch is as good as any currency out there. But let’s start at the beginning. Hans Wilsdorf (born in 1888) founded the company we now know as Rolex, in 1905. At the time it was called Wilsdorf & Davis, where Davis was a family member and acted as an investor in the company. The company started as an assembly firm, ordering movements and other watch parts from Switzerland and having them shipped to London where the Wilsdorf & Davis company was…