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Hi all

A question for the Rolex experts

Today I overheard a conversation about someone getting a price to service an old Rolex watch, the price they had been quoted was around £650 but they never mentioned who had been asked to carry out the service, but they did mention it was powered by a chain.  I assumed they meant a Fusee.

I did a Google search but found no mention of early Rolex's having a Fusee fitted.  Did they ever do that, or did they do something else with a chain ? Or has someone got a really odd fake Rolex.

Thanks for any input on this.

Paul

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have you ever noticed where you go to a lecturer you learn all sorts of interesting things then a question like this comes up and you realize you weren't paying attention 100%?  the lecture was not on Rolex but the lecture was on where do Gruen movements come from. Because Gruen was purchasing Ebauche Movements in Switzerland. Apparently those people out there researching movements and discovering quite a few companies purchased movements from these Ebauche makers.

So because I unfortunately did not memorize the Rolex part of the story we have the Wikipedia entry below. They start off in the United Kingdom they purchase movements. as you can see if the Wikipedia they eventually relocate to Switzerland. In the lecture one of things we learned of interest was at least one factory Rolex Gruen and somebody else got controlling interest of the company. Much later on Rolex managed to get everybody out of the company and they were the majority stockholder. Which was in operation until relatively recently making Rolex watches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex

 

doesn't help answer your question though? So I guess a different question would be did Rolex ever make and we now know that Rolex does not make, did Rolex ever purchase pocket watch movements? looks like the answer is yes they did have pocket watches. I suppose it is possible but I usually associate fusee chains with earlier types of watches. So I guess then the next question that I not going to looking for is were there any high-end fusee pocket watches in the production after 1905? If so then possibly Rolex at a fusee watch but I would've leaned before I started answering towards no. But it would really be nice to have a picture. Plus it be nice to have a picture history of Rolex watches preferably the movements as I like pictures of movements.

https://beckertime.com/blog/history-of-rolex-pocket-watches/

 

 

 

 

 

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