Rolex is training college dropouts and disillusioned office workers to become watchmakers. More than 560 people applied for just 27 spots in 2024—a 4.82% acceptance rate, close to Harvard’s.

You probably already own a Rolex, but now you can learn to repair one, too. The new Rolex Watchmaking Training Center, which opened in Dallas, Texas last year to foster the next generation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spencer Torok, 25, a watchmaker at J.N. Shapiro Watches in Torrance, recently graduated from Rolex's Lititz Watch Technicum.

America has fewer than 2,000 professional watchmakers. Rolex’s new Dallas school aims to fix that—and the demand for admission says a lot about the state of work in 2026.

Andy Warhol viewed his Cartier Tank purely as a design statement. “I don’t wear a Tank to tell the time,” he admitted. “I never even wind it. I wear a Tank because it’s the watch to wear.” ...

Most people know Rolex as the gold standard of mechanical watchmaking - which is exactly why a Rolex that runs on a battery looks, at first glance, like a fraud. This restoration video covers a ...

David Begnaud is a CBS News contributor and previously served as the lead national correspondent for "CBS Mornings," based in New York City. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

The Rolex Awards, now in its 50th year, supports individuals leading projects with the potential for global impact and achievement ...

Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...

Led by nine administrators and instructors with decades of industry experience, the inaugural 18-month tuition-free course combines robust technical training with a comprehensive conceptual framework ...