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Top 62 Best Rolex Quotes [List of quotes about Rolex watches]
Rolex is one of the most prestigious and recognized companies in the world. Rolex watches have been worn by some of the most influential individuals in the world including world leaders, celebrities, and movie stars.
With that said, lots have been said about Rolex watches, from Rolex’s own sponsored athletes and other influential individuals, to famous celebrities and world leaders.
Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf was a firm believer in the power of testimonies about a brand and its products. The most notable event in Rolex’s history regarding this was when Mercedes Gleitze became the first woman to swim the English channel and Hans Wilsdorf used her testament in a front-page ad in the DailyMail. This effectively became the first Rolex testimony and led Rolex onto a track where testimonies would play a crucial and central role in promoting the brand and its watches.
In this article, we have compiled an extensive list of the best Rolex quotes. Some of the quotes are statements made by many different influential individuals, others are iconic quotes where the person who said it remains unknown. Some of the quotes are also made by Rolex or the founder but have become so iconic and also reflect the brand so well that they are worth including in this list. With these quotes, we can get a better understanding of the brand, what it’s all about, and how the watches are perceived by the general public, the company itself, and by some of the most influential people in the world.
Best Rolex quotes
It doesn’t just tell time. It tells history.
– Rolex
My Rolex Oyster not only remained waterproof during my swim across the English Channel, but it also kept perfect time.
– Miss Mercedes Gleitze
Rolex Watch worn during Record attempt and still going splendidly notwithstanding rough usage received.
– Sir Malcolm Campbell
Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
– Kanye West
“A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.”
~ Brian McKnight
Rolex accuracy is all one could desire and it has run continuously without winding ever since I put it on some nine months ago. I count my Rolex watch amongst my most treasured possessions.
– Sir Edmund Hillary
With Rolex, I sought to create a name that would be easy to pronounce in all the European languages and that could easily and elegantly grace the dial of a watch.
– Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex
Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex. You see the brand in the context of the competition and bring it to the attention of everybody.
– Martin Sorrell
There’s no difference between a tacky Jew and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.
– Brett Ratner
I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you’re wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.
– Brad Goreski
Allow me to tell you of the great delight I am having with this remarkable Rolex timepiece of such high precision and outstanding features.
– General Henri Guisan
My personal opinion…is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.
~ Hans Wilsdorf
My Rolex is a continual pleasure, and works admirably.
– Sir Winston Churchill (1948)
My Rolex Datejust has brought me a great deal of satisfaction.
– President. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Invisibly set, the Rolex is faceless. I’m just young, rich, but your tasteless.
– Pusha T
Me imma pimp I ain’t paying for no sex. Man I’d rather buy a car or a new Rolex
– Lil Flip
Uh, smoke Kush so I got no stress. Stuntin it ain’t no contest. Diamonds all in my Rolex, cuz’ I go hard like P90X.
– Wiz Khalifa
Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex.
– Wiz Khalifa
A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
– Ian Fleming
He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
– Ian Fleming
They performed splendidly and we have indeed come to look upon Rolex Oysters as an important part of high climbing equipment.
– Brigadier Sir John Hunt
Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It’s as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.
– Maurice Chevalier
Leaders in all walks of life acknowledge that pride of Rolex ownership starts conversations…makes strangers friends and distinguishes each as a person of taste and judgment.
– Bob Hope
This is to be expected… for discriminating leaders throughout the world depend upon Rolex to guard their precious time.
– Bob Hope
I wore a Rolex 40 years ago when I broke the sound barrier and I still do today. A pilot has to believe in his equipment. That’s why I wear a Rolex.
– General Chuck Yeager
The Rolex Submariner & Sea Dweller have a cachet that is unmatched by any other watch. The Rolex brand is the most highly respected in my book.
-Scott Carpenter
Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist.
– French Montana
I only wear Rolex.
– Arthur Ashe
I have believed in the quality and integrity of Rolex for years. I began wearing Rolex watches early in my career, and have so ever since.
– Jack Nicklaus
Rolex has shared every second of my time for the last 47 years.
– Arnold Palmer
Rolex is the quintessential quality timepiece and I am extremely proud of my long time association with them.
-Gary Player
The thing I like about Rolex is that they don’t compromise. That’s why I’ve worn a Rolex for over two decades.
– Roger Penske
My wife Joanne gave me my Rolex Daytona when I started racing back in 1972.
– Paul Newman
When a man has a world in his hands, you expect to find a Rolex on his wrist.
– Rolex Advertisement from 1965
To ensure the quality of its products, Rolex designs and produces in-house the essential components of its watches (casting of gold alloys, assembly of the movement, case, dial and bracelet, machining and finishing). As the pioneer of the wristwatch, the company is at the origin of numerous major innovations in the watchmaking industry and has filed over 500 patents in the course of its history.
– Rolex
I heard Rolex makes nice watches.
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
My work is so strongly fashion, and it meant I had to downplay my exuberance and sculptural dimension to something that would fit into jewelry cases and sit next to Rolex watches and David Yurman [pieces].
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He’s an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.
For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.
I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don’t even have pierced ears – I’m not into that; it’s too much.
— ASAP Rocky
Despite wearing a Rolex, I have no time.
We’re all so digital, but the ’50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.
This attractive Rolex watch has become one of my proud possessions. I have been highly pleased by its accuracy and reliability as well as its beautiful appearance.
– President. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rolex watches behaved flawlessly under any and all the worst conditions imaginable, not only this time but also on previous expeditions to Mount Everest.
– Tenzing Norgay
A watch is as much a part of a man’s or woman’s wardrobe as it is an instrument for measuring time.
– The Story of Rolex
When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
– Brian McKnight
Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.
– Dwight Howard
We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.
-Hans Wilsdorf
Time is money, so I went and bought a Rolex.
– Wiz Khalifa
I’ve got two Rolexes that I’m very proud of – a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I’m trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.
– J. Cole
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
– Helen Fisher
I don’t think I’ll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn’t big enough.
– P.J. O’rourke
I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.
– Tim Allen
It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.
“While riding on the upper deck of a horse-drawn omnibus along Cheapside in the City of London, a genie whispered ‘Rolex’ in my ear”
Rolex must continuously strive to think and act differently from the rest. Therein lies my greatest strength
– Hans Wilsdorf
Produce nothing but beautiful work
-Hans Wilsdorf
Like an oyster, it can remain an unlimited time under water without detriment to its parts
-Hans Wilsdorf
What has been achieved in the past serves to strengthen my faith in the future and my conviction that the fame of Rolex will prove worthy of the position it has won in the world.
-Hans Wilsdorf
Today, as we witness the devastating effects of our throwaway culture, Hans Wilsdorf’s vision appears resoundingly modern. With its Perpetual rotor, the Oyster needs no external source of power, winding itself automatically through the gentle action of the wrist. The Oyster Perpetual is a watch for our time – it is built to last and made to keep.
-Rolex
In the pursuit of perpetual excellence, nothing is left to chance – from the specialized equipment that the company has developed to produce and test the watches, to the laboratories where research and development is carried out and the ateliers that are continually optimized to enable the highest quality of work.
-Rolex
The debut of the Rolex Oyster and its triumphant march worldwide
-Rolex advertisment in the Daily Mail in 1927
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