Wednesday, February 24, My Rolex Story Jake's Rolex World has been published days a year for 16 years, since May of My Rolex History Jake Ehrlich. Hi Everybody! Jake Ehrlich in I am a self-admitted Rolex fanatic of the highest order, in case you didn't notice My objective with sharing my personal Rolex story is to give you insight into what makes me tick, and has inspired me to publish Jake's Rolex World.
I am sharing my personal Rolex history with you today, for the first time because I have always been kind of shy. If you meet me in person, and get me talking, I am likely to talk you ear off, but in many ways I have zero interest in putting myself in the limelight. Several months ago, I had the opportunity to visit Rolex headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as receiving a super-detailed tour of all four Rolex manufacturing facilities in Switzerland , which was mind-blowing!
In my story I will soon be publishing, I include a few current photos of myself, so I thought now would be as apropos as ever to share where my fascination for Rolex came from. My First Watch Memories. I have been wearing a wristwatch since I was a small child, and in the picture below, at age 5, taken during Christmas in , you can see me wearing a wrist watch, and I have a Sheriffs badge pinned to my shirt. Hey, what can I say? It was the early s, and wearing and flashing badges was cool.
Even, Elvis was into it. My older sister is sitting next to me in the photo with my niece on her lap. My father Jake Ehrlich Jr. My grandfather Jake primarily wore a Patek Philippe pocket watch in his vest pocket, and also collected other fine Swiss watches.
My father Jake wore a Patek Philippe wristwatch. In our home, my father Jake had a watch movement that was suspended in a solid cube of acrylic like the one pictured below, and as a small child I remember spending countless hours studying it, trying to make some sense of how the parts worked together. For me, it was like a Rubik's Cube in the sense I could never quite figure out how all the mechanical pieces fit and worked together, but was absolutely fascinated with it.
