Ben Clymer

Any of those things could be true.

I can say with the utmost certainty is that they will never reveal any of that to be true, even if it is.

They're not the type of brand, type of company that will ever stand on the rooftop and shout about anything.

And I mentioned this in the story that I wrote in 2015, whereas most brands, they're trying to create stories where there aren't any.

A lot of brands will say a watch is in-house and you manufacture it in-house when it's not.

Rolex doesn't do any of that.

In fact,

What's so remarkable, and I found this out on my own doing my own research for that story in 2015, they will make several updates to products at some significant cost to themselves and not change the retail price and not even tell anybody about it.

And the only reason that I found out is when doing research for that story, I spoke to an independent watchmaker who is in New York City and is one of the best watchmakers in the country, if not the world.

And he said he works on Rolex as well as other brands.

These are the changes that they made to their movements.

Without anybody knowing.

And by the way, these other brands that are communicating about Liga, which is a manufacturing technique that allows you to have frictionless gears, a brand sent out a press release about that.

And then he came to find out that Rolex had been doing that for five years.

It was in half their watches already.

That's what's so kind of wonderful about Rolex is they just are so...

remarkably Swiss.

They are so kind of conservative and thoughtful in the way that they communicate.

When I wrote that story in 2015, I was one of the first journalists to ever be invited inside Rolex manufacturing headquarters in Vienna, Switzerland, which is where movements are made.

They just are not out there to talk about themselves really ever.