one year to make a Rolex...

[NoobSubmarinerOwner]

this is my first new thread -- been posting here and there. proud owner of 114060 for a month and very happy with it.

the topic i haven't found a dedicated thread although i must admit i didn't really exhaustively searched for it on TRF.

i have heard it from the rolex website and a few posts talking about the time it take to make a rolex watch. one year. however they make it - whether by hand or by machine -- their video makes it look like every single one movement and the assembly is from one dedicated watchmaker who see's the assembly from start to finish.

one year is alot of time to build a watch - it would seem difficult to fathom how it would take one year to make a rolex watch.

although rolex never explains how they come to the one year conclusion - i am about to attempt to explain the one year.

the one year watch making process, IMHO, is exactly from start to finish... not just assembling the watch components together. i'm talking about mining the iron ore, processing the ore to attain the correct alloy mixture to make the 904L stainless steel. all the other manufacturing processes of the jewels the gears , cogs etc (whatever they call it in the watch making business). the manufacturing of the sapphire crystal - the machining of all the parts. .. while they could happen simultaneously - it still took time.

can those processes, although it may be simultaneous, accumulate collectively into 1 years time? that's 8,760 hours - from the very beginning to the very end.

one year to make a rolex watch.

just something on my mind.