Apple Watch Launches! Is This The Rolex Killer?

[Malak]

Originally Posted by Chelseafan

....about as sexy as an electric car

Tesla Model S

[T. Ferguson]

Originally Posted by chland7

Wait for the Rolex licensed Apple Watch background !!!

That's not gonna happen. Name one other company Rolex has granted a license to use it's name or logo on a time piece. They're pretty anal that anything with their trademarks on it be a genuine Rolex product - and is only sold through authorized dealers.

[chland7]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

That's not gonna happen. Name one other company Rolex has granted a license to use it's name or logo on a time piece. They're pretty anal that anything with their trademarks on it be a genuine Rolex product - and is only sold through authorized dealers.

Heh was joking.

[T. Ferguson]

Originally Posted by chland7

Heh was joking.

This has been speculated about before. Certainly Apple would be in a position to offer Rolex some serious money for the rights to the name and coronet. But Rolex doesn't play well with others in this way.

And obviously Apple wouldn't do anything that even remotely could be construed as infringement. Rolex would probably have no problem having a shipment of US bound Apple "Folex" iwatches seized and destroyed at the border.

I could see some aftermarket guerrilla app companies creating a Rolex app for the watch though. IIRC, someone here posted a pic a while back of an electronic watch dial they had created to look like a Rolex. The app was actually one that allowed you to design your own watch face.