{"id":5915,"date":"2023-01-16T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2023\/01\/16\/iconic-is-the-watch-that-wears-the-crown-rolex-by-ape-to-gentleman\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:36:42","slug":"iconic-is-the-watch-that-wears-the-crown-rolex-by-ape-to-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/2023\/01\/16\/iconic-is-the-watch-that-wears-the-crown-rolex-by-ape-to-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Is The Watch That Wears The Crown: Rolex By Ape To Gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask anyone on the street to name a Swiss watch brand, or any watch brand for that matter, and chances are they will say \u201cRolex\u201d. It is a word synonymous with a certain quality and desirability, and, thanks to the unknowable production-line equations of Rolex, unavailability. It was James Bond\u2019s watch, it has been to the depths of the Mariana Trench, it is the watch of presidents. It is an icon.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Hans Wilsdorf, founder of both Rolex and Tudor, first started pushing the idea of a wristwatch, people wrote it off as a passing fad. This was 1905 and Wilsdorf was one of Britain\u2019s major watch dealers.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apetogentleman.com\/rolex-by-ape\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rolex-by-ape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask anyone on the street to name a Swiss watch brand, or any watch brand for that matter, and chances are they will say \u201cRolex\u201d. It is a word synonymous with a certain quality and desirability, and, thanks to the unknowable production-line equations of Rolex, unavailability. It was James Bond\u2019s watch, it has been to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}