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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

At times, Rolex tweaks its product line and business operations. If you're looking for a new Rolex timepiece, keep an eye out ...

In production since 1956, this precious metal-only timepiece is an object of desire all over the world.

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 ...