Are Rolex movements hand made?

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Originally Posted by padi56

Today to those who think that mechanical watches are produced by hundreds of little elves, restlessly filing, smoothing, grinding, polishing watch parts.

Rolex are ruthlessly mechanistic in their approach and their plant is absolute state of the art high tec when it comes to the manafacture and testing of watches. But, yes, the last liitle bit where they apply the hands and some of the face markings is by hand. There used to be a video of this on the Rolex site. So 99% of your watch is machine processed.