who created the first rolex
But in 1945, Rolex presented the first wristwatch with a date display and a quick date mechanisms. The history of the worldâs most famous watch manufacture begins in Kulmbach, a Bavarian city where Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex, came to the world in 1881. At the age of 24, Wilsdorf went to England, just after he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Germany and worked in Switzerland in the watch industry.