The fate of a Rolex watch that solved one of Britain's most notorious murders has been revealed - after nearly three decades.

Designed in 1926 as a waterproof case with a screw-down crown and caseback, the Oyster was later paired with Rolex’s self-winding movement (whose rotor traveled through 360 degrees) to form a ...

More fun Rolex facts: the brand invented and patented the world’s first self-winding automatic mechanism with a ‘perpetual’ rotor in 1931. (This rotor is present in every automatic watch today.) ...

The fate of a Rolex watch that solved a notorious murder ... Investigating officers gave the watch a shake in a mortuary and the self-winding mechanism came bursting back to life.

The self-contained underwater breathing ... boast chronometer-certified, in-house Rolex movements with automatic winding; and make use of a suite of advanced Rolex technologies, such as the ...

The fate of a Rolex watch that solved a notorious murder in Devon has been revealed. Former soldier Ronald Platt was found ...