Everything You Need To Know About Rolex Submariner
The Rolex Submariner story began in the early 1950s director Rene P. Jeanneret, also an amateur diver, encouraged the company to develop a sports watch for scuba divers. Rolex Submariner The Submariner story began in the early 1950s director Rene P. Jeanneret, also an amateur diver, encouraged the company to develop a sports watch for scuba divers. Then, in 1953, Rolex launched their new 6200 model timepiece as Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques attempted a world diving record. Not only was the pair successful going to a new world record depth of 10,335 feet below the ocean’s surface, but the Submariner survived too. Later that year, Rolex ensured that a famous oceanographer was always wearing the Submariner in the academy awarded film, ‘The Silent World.’ Then in 1954, Rolex formally launched Submariner model 6204 which was water resistant that could resist depths of 200 meters (or 660 feet): something no other watch company had been able to achieve. Howeve...