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I think it is true, and it’s largely because, encouraged by the English themselves, they’ve been using a very narrow and outdated definition of what English food actually is.The British (the English, Scots, Welsh) are historically terrible at exporting or even being basically enthusiastic about traditional English food, and very enthusiastic about foreign cuisine. And this is my point: the British have absorbed the influence of other cuisines to the point that the common conception of English food is wildly out of date.I’m Irish, but I’ve been reading English cookbooks all my life, by people like Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Nigel Slater and Jamie Oliver.David was a hugely influential 20th century food writer. She was really good, too, doing a ton of footwork and writing enormously learned books.However, here is a list of the books she published in her lifetime:Notice anything?Four out of her first five books are about Mediterranean cooking, French cooking or Italian food. She knew those subjects well, and yes, she was writing against a tendency to provincialism in English cookery. She was writing as much against the stuffy haute cuisine traditions of French restaurants in Britain, as against boring English food generally. She had eaten French food in France, and Italian food in Italy, and Greek food in Greece. She knew what it was supposed to be like.She was also scathing about bad food anywhere. Some of her angriest and funniest writing is about the decline of French restaurant cooking.But not until 1977 did she get around to publishing a book about specifically English food. I have a copy of English Bread and Yeast Cookery and it’s a freakin’ masterpiece, but it’s not the book by her that everyone has (which is probably French Provincial Cooking.)The thing about David that was exciting is that she brought French and Mediterranean food into post-war austerity Britain and made it seem delicious and fascinating. It’s been said that before Elizabeth David came along, the only places in Britain where you could get olive oil were pharmacies, where they sold little vials of it to treat earache.Also, she was divorced, she’d lived all over the place and she was hella glamorous:Jamie Oliver made his name in Britain cooking mostly Italian food. He was talent-spotted by a TV producer who saw him working in the kitchen of the River Café, one of London’s best Italian restaurants. Between 1999 and 2001 he had his first TV show, The Naked Chef, where he enthusiastically urged us to use fresh herbs while zipping about Soho on his Vespa and cooking for his mates.This is the kind of thing that made late-20s me go Wow, that looks like fun:It looks a bit dated now, but at the time, he made cooking with these kind of ingredients seem easy and doable. The combination of raw stuff and cooked stuff was especially influential on me. And even when Oliver looked like he was just being cute, as in the above frame where he’s raised the cheese grater over his head to grate the cheese, there’s a point: scattering flavourings and seasoning from on high over food spreads them over a wider area, whereas doing it from a few inches above the food tends to concentrate it in patches.The accompanying cookbooks were bestsellers and he really did manage to get a lot of people to use more fresh ingredients. He made making your own pasta seem really sexy. Anthony Bourdain was quite sniffy about him, back in the day, but to the rest of us, he was a breath of fresh air.What he wasn’t doing was focus on supposedly ‘English’ dishes. He had a very good take on the bacon sandwich, and he had a useful recipe for a fry-up in which everything was stuck together by the eggs so you could slide it out all in one go. But most of his dishes were Italian, or Italian-inspired.And that’s great: Italian food is delicious.And it’s also what a lot of British people want to eat.Nigel Slater—not that well-known in the US or Europe, maybe, but big in Britain—went from working in restaurant kitchens, to writing for Marie Claire magazine, to writing early 90s books like The 30-Minute Cook, to writing for the Observer, one of the leading British Sunday newspapers, and really hitting his stride in the late 90s/early 00s Real Food and Appetite, before becoming a wise, jumper-wearing sage and advocate of growing your own veg in books like Tender (which went to two volumes.)Slater’s initial thing was You’re tired and you’ve worked all day and you want to eat something tasty in a hurry? Let me introduce you to chickpeas. He took recipes from around the world, simplified them a bit, and introduced them to British readers as fascinating new things which they hadn’t considered before.Look at that. It’s not a plain ham sandwich, is it? That appears to me to be slice of aubergine (eggplant) topped with possibly goats’ cheese, tomato or maybe red pepper, olives and mint. I’ll have to check. I actually have a copy of this book.The 30-Minute Cook is amusing to read now, because it assumes that the reader has probably never heard of half of the ingredients or recipes that most British readers would now take for granted: things like dal, or basil, or Kaffir limes. On his website, Slater admits ‘It must be said, however, that the book is looking a little dated.’ Uh, yeah, Nigel.Slater freely uses Asian flavours and European and Middle Eastern recipes, he just never pretends that he’s trying to be authentic, and he never calls them by their foreign names. He takes food from other cultures that he likes, and he Anglicises it. In Appetite he has a killer recipe for salsa verde composed of parsley, mint, anchovies, olive oil, capers, lemon juice and mustard. It’s delicious.But he doesn’t call it salsa verde. He calls it ‘green sauce’.Is this wrong? Well, does it really matter, if people eat it? In the mid-90s, Slater started raving about peppers and aubergines and chickpeas and spices in a way that got British people listening to him. They’ve now become part of the lingua franca of cooking in the UK. They’re much more readily available than they used to be.Since then, Slater has become more and more about growing your own stuff and putting it together how you want, but he still makes nothing of the fact that a lot of his preferred combinations reflect local recipes that are of European or Middle Eastern or Asian origin.Is this, too, ‘English food’?If not, why not?Who gets to decide what food is ‘English’, and what isn’t? And using what criteria?Jane Grigson was an advocate for traditional English food. But she died in 1990, and I don’t suppose that many foreign readers have read her 1974 classic English Food, which among other things has the most reliable and delicious Yorkshire pudding recipe I’ve ever used.English Food is about local ingredients, which in Britain can be superb. Jane Grigson got me interested in laverbread, the delicious Welsh preparation of seaweed. The kipper is a traditional food of Britain, a cured herring that’s been de-headed, deboned, split and smoked. It’s the opposite of the sort of bland, boring stodge that Europeans tend to associate with English food. It’s an intense experience: a blast of smoky, meaty fishiness. In the US I believe they’re sold in cans, but in the UK they’re freely available vacuum-packed, and very cheap.But they’re also regarded in the UK as a food associated with old people, or working men. Not something you’d cook if you want to seem young and hip and daring. They’re one of the cheapest things you can get, because they’re so low in prestige. The kipper is an example of how even the British underrate their own food.Among Jane Grigson’s other books are Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (a real masterpiece); Jane Grigson’s Book of European Cooking; Dishes from the Mediterranean; The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy and The World Atlas of Food.And that brilliant recipe in English Food for Yorkshire pudding? She got it from a Chinese cook in the north of England.Let’s look at a UK newspaper’s list for 2018 of the 20 best new cookbooks in the UK.This list is divided into six categories: Middle Eastern, Italian, Indian, healthy cookbooks, family cookbooks and desserts.Simple, by Yotam Ottolengthi. Middle Eastern recipes by an Israeli chef domiciled in the UKHoney & Co. at Home, by Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich. More Middle Eastern food by two more expat Israeli chefs.Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen, by Yasmin Khan. Middle Eastern food from the other side of the wire!Berber & Q by Josh Katz. Middle Eastern-US fusion!Jamie Cooks Italy, by Jamie Oliver. Italian food.Venice: Four Seasons of Home Cooking, by Russell Norman. Italian.A Table in Venice: Four Seasons in my Home, by Skye McAlpine. Italian.Gunpowder: Explosive Flavours from Modern India, by Devina Seth. The UK’s love affair with Indian food is long-term and passionate.Asma’s Indian Kitchen by Asma Khan. Told you.Masala: Indian Cooking for Modern Living by Mallika Basu. See?The closest there is to a book looking at what we unimaginatively refer to as ‘English food’ is Diana Henry’s How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places, described as ‘a beautifully nostalgic collection of recipes that have made it through the years, written down on scraps of paper, only to finally find a more permanent home in this heartfelt book.’ Ah, right, so lots of lemon curd and roast beef and sandwiches with bloater paste, amirite?Not exactly:Diana’s ‘perfect lunch’ consists of asparagus, peas & radishes with pistachio pesto, crab, tomato and saffron tart for main and gooseberry & almond cake with lemon thyme syrup to finish.The only thing in there that can be said to be traditionally English is the dessert. I’d give that crab, tomato and saffron tart a soft pass for being a country house dish, intended to evoke memories of Mediterranean holidays. Because it’s a frickin’ quiche, by anyone’s standards: crab meat and tomato contained in an egg custard in a pastry case.Okay, but that’s a newspaper’s choice of cookbooks: does it actually reflect what people are reading? Are people actually buying any of these books?Yes, they are. Ottolenghi’s Simple is, at the time of writing, the no. 2 beststelling cookbook on the British Amazon site:Number 3 is The Hairy Bikers’ British Classics. The Hairy Bikers are David Myers and Si King, two immensely popular TV chefs who bike around cooking hearty foods and being nice chaps. ‘British Classics’ turn out to include ‘Hairy Biker paella’, ‘Hand-rolled spinach pasta with paprika meatballs’, ‘Jerk pork chops’, ‘Thai vegetable curry’, ‘Bengali fish curry’, as well as Lancashire Hotpot, Herby dumplings, Roast chicken with herby stuffing and all the other kinds of thing associated with English food.We—by which I mean, all of us, people living in Britain, people outside Britain—talk about English food (and by extension British food) as if it were what the most closed-minded, little-England, UKIP-supporting chauvinists would like it to be. A procession of pork pies and deep-fried things and baked meat and stodgy crap. Food as fuel, or food that’s admittedly tasty but also comfortingly nostalgic about a vanished past.Not food to be savoured. Not food that’s exciting.In fact, as I’ve tried to show, British people have been cosmopolitan in their eating habits for decades. —Longer, if you dig around in older English cookbooks, and discover how the hotels and restaurants of London in the 19th century were dominated by French cuisine. 19th century English cooking was full of flavours of anchovy and spice and vinegar. The Romans would have felt right at home in it.The biggest ethnic minorities in Scotland by some distance are Pakistani and Indian people, and one of the happy results is the haggis pakora, readily available in Indian takeaways and supermarkets in Scotland. The British passion for curry is something that people outside the UK know little of, but it’s a true obsession for many people. The late Iain Banks went into a rhapsody about Scottish-Indian fusion cookery in his underrated novel Whit.I don’t want to claim that paella or falafel or curry or handmade pasta must now be considered to be English food, by virtue of the fact that so many English people like eating them. But when either British people or people outside Britain talk about ‘English food’, or ‘British food’, we tend to be talking more about dubiously chauvinistic notions of national identity, and not about what people in Britain actually like to cook and eat.It does an injustice to British food to insist that it conforms to an idea of what British people ate 70–80 years ago.Not only does it ignore what waves of immigration have brought to British food, it ignores the extent to which the influence of that immigration has been welcomed and even embraced.Having said all that, I’ll leave you with this example of 21st century English cuisine that reaches right back to the medieval period: Potted squirrel with sourdough recipe - Great British ChefsI’m so going to make that.

Here are 41 interesting facts about Rolex . The article was originally posted on our blog Facts About Rolex: 41 Interesting Things you Must Know! - Millennium Watches41 most interesting Facts about Rolex1. What does Rolex mean?Most watch brands have been named after their founders, such as Patek Philippe and TAG Heuer, but not Rolex.Because the founder hasn’t gone into too much detail about what Rolex means and how it came about, it has given birth to a number of theories.The most common story about the Rolex name is the fact that the founder was looking for a name that could be pronounced in any language, looked good on a watch face, is short, and memorable. This seems to be the most accurate theory as it is one that has been admitted by one of the founders.Another story is that the name derives from the French for exquisite clockwork (horlogerie exquise, where the H is silent- “hoROLogical EXcellence”). This is, however, not something that the founders have confirmed nor denied. Another theory about the Rolex name is that, according to the founder, the word rolex sounds like the sound of a watch being wound.There are misconceptions that ”Rolex” is a word in some language, but there is actually no language which has the world Rolex in its lexicon. In Spanish, however, reloj, means clock and both Rolex and reloj sound similar. Since Spanish is the most spoken language in the world, it’s possible but unlikely.2. Rolex started using 904L stainless steel in 1985From 1985 and onwards, all Rolex watches are made of this alloy.Most watch companies make their steel watches in a type of stainless steel called 316L.Rolex calls its alloy ”corrosion-resistant superalloy”, and corrosion is a problem with stainless steel watches. The reason is that the watch is attached to the wrist, and this combined with moisture and other corrosive substances, such as salt water can make the watch rust and corrode.The 904L steel is more expensive than the 316L and much more complicated to make. There are other steels that are harder and more resistant to scratches and marks than the 904L steel, but for a tool watch, especially when it comes to Rolex’s dive watches, it’s crucial that the cases are waterproof, and corrosion can compromise this if the threads that hold the crown and the case back corrode.That Rolex uses 904L steel is just one of many facts about Rolex that sets the brand apart from its competitors.3. All Rolex watches are handmadeEven in the industrial era we live in where machines that can do most tasks, Rolex’s watches are still handmade. Rolex watches are meticulously and carefully crafted and put together to make sure they meet the high standards that Rolex is looking to keep.Essentially everything for the Rolex watches is made in-house. The most complicated and lengthy process is for a watchmaker to assemble the advanced movements that are fitted inside of a Rolex watch. To make sure they meet the high demands, they are lastly independently tested.4. All movements by Rolex are assembled by handThe skilled watchmakers of Rolex assemble each of their movements by hand. Back in the days, Rolex bought movements externally for some of its models, but today, they are all made in-house, which means that all movements used in Rolex’s modern watches are made by Rolex themselves.Considering the high volume of watches that Rolex produces, it’s hard to believe that each of the movements is assembled by hand, but it is certainly a proof of the immense quality and attention to detail that goes into making these watches.5. Rolex makes about 800,000 to 1 million watches a yearIt is estimated that Rolex makes about 2000 watches a day, but Rolex doesn’t release information about how many watches produced yearly, and this is why the numbers are estimates.6. All Rolex watches are photographed with at the time 10 past 10If you look at all the Rolex watches photographed, you’ll notice that all of them are set to 10 past 10 and with the second hand at 31 seconds. This is known as the official ”Rolex time”. If the watch has a date function, the date is always set to the 28th, and if it has a day function, such as in the Day-Date, the day is always set to Monday.The reasons for this is simple. First off, it becomes a trademark and iconic trait of Rolex’s watches, but most important is the aesthetic look that it gives. The hands are set to a position where they are symmetrical and at the same time perfectly frame the logo which can always be found at 12 o’ clock.7. It takes about a year to make a Rolex watchThis is according to a Rolex advert. With that in mind, the cost of a Rolex doesn’t seem too high at all.8. Rolex was founded by Alfred Davis and Hans WilsdorfHans Wilsdorf was the brother-in-law of Alfred Davis.9. Rolex was founded in London, England in 1905The company didn’t start out as Rolex, though. The company first started out as Wilsdorf and Davis.10. Rolex started out as a company which assembled watchesAt first, Rolex didn’t make watches, they merely assembled them. The company purchased movements Hermann Aegler’s Swiss movements and put the movement into cases which were made by Dennison as well as other manufacturers. The watches were then sold to jewelers.11. The early wristwatches of Rolex were marked W&DWhen the watch company first began, the name Rolex didn’t exist, and the company made watches for jewelers. As such, the watches weren’t branded on the dial, in order to allow the jewelers to put their own names on the dial. The watches were marked, however, inside the casebook, with ”W&D”.12. All Rolex Oyster watches are pressure-tested before leaving the factoryMaybe not the most surprising facts about Rolex, but in order to ensure complete water resistance, Rolex pressure-tests all of its Oyster watches. This process involves a number of steps, including placing the watch in a sensitive air-pressure chamber in order to identify if the case has any air leakage. If this is the case, the watch is removed from the assembly line.13. In 1919, Rolex relocated to GenevaFor a brand that is today known as the top luxury Swiss watchmaker, it might come as a surprise that the company didn’t start out in Switzerland, nor that the founders were Swiss.In 1919, however, Rolex’s story as a Swiss watchmaker began, as the company relocated to Geneva, Switzerland due to wartime taxes which were levied on luxury imports – mainly silver and gold.14. In 1908, the trademark Rolex was registeredWilsdorf registered the trademark “Rolex” and then opened an office in La Chaux-de-Fonds. On the 15th November 1915, the company name and trademark “Rolex” was registered.15. Rolex Is a charityIn 1944, Hans Wilsdorf founded the Hans Wilsdorf foundation was founded in 1944 after the death of his wife.The ownership of Rolex is now the subject to the foundation, and clear guidelines for how the finances should be handled are set up.Since Swiss law says that private charities don’t need to disclose about their respective charities, the donations of the Rolex foundation are kept a secret. As such, there haven’t been any and there has been no information released about whether or not anyone has received a charity from the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation.16. In 1925, Rolex’s iconic crown logo appeared for the first timeToday, it is a well-known logo all over the world, but since it was first introduced, it has been slightly reshaped and changed.17. Rolex set all of their hour markers by handThis goes to show Rolex’s impressive craftsmanship and attention to detail. Most other watchmakers complete this process with the help of machines, but Rolex is able to achieve a higher precision with the human hand for this process.18. In 2017, the most expensive Rolex watch sold for $5,060,427…The watch sold was the Bao Dai ref. 6062 which is the only one of its kind. It was outfitted with a black dial and diamond indexesThe watch was first auctioned in 2002 for $235,000, but 15 years later, it broke that record significantly by more than 20 times the price when it was sold for $5,060,427.The watch was specially made in 1954 and was commissioned by the last Emperor of Vietnam, Bao Dai.19. ….This record was broken, however, in 2017 when a Rolex Daytona sold for $17,752,500This sale broke all records and resulted in the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at an auction.In 2017, the mythical ”Paul Newman” Daytona which had been owned by the man of which the model has gotten its nickname from was auctioned out. It was a 1968 Rolex of Reference 6239 Daytona, and when the hammer was dropped in October 2017 at Phillips’ inaugural watch auction in New York City, it sold at a staggering price of $17.7m to an anonymous buyer on the phone.20. The first waterproof case for a wristwatch was the Oyster caseThe oyster case was made by Rolex in 1926, and as you can imagine, it was a big moment in watchmaking history as it wasn’t completely that watches got water damages due to their inabilities of preventing water from entering the case.The Oyster case, on the other hand, had a patented system of screwing down the bezel, case back and crown to the middle case. This enabled the watch to become waterproof. In 1926, Rolex did not only create the first waterproof wristwatch, but they became the first brand to produce it on a large scale.21. The winding crown of Rolex is made up of 10 different partsQuite an impressive fact about Rolex which yet again goes to show Rolex’s great attention to detail. The 10 different parts are screwed hermetically onto the watch case.22. Rolex makes all of its gold in-houseTalk about in-house manufacturing. In the world of watchmaking, having an in-house movement tends to be prestigious and reflect a great passion for watchmaking, but when Rolex even goes so far to make its own gold in-house, it proves that Rolex isn’t like other watchmakers and that it never compromise with quality.Because of the fact that Rolex makes their own gold, they can control the production and machining of it. This also means that they are able to ensure quality as well as looks of the material. Rolex is the only watch company which makes its own gold and has a real in-house foundry.23. Rolex has been to the top and the bottom – without losing a secondIn 1953, the team which was led by Sir Edmund Hillary that reached the top of Mount Everest wore Rolex. The Rolex continued to run flawlessly. Seven years later, in 1960, the US Navy’s bathyscaphe Trieste went on a mission to go down 10,916 meters, 35,800 feet deep into the ocean at Mariana Trench. Rolex accompanied the Bathyscape Trieste on this historic mission, and at the bottom, the watch was subjected to a pressure of 14,000 psi, but despite this, it continued to tick without even losing a second. This goes to show Rolex’s immense quality and ruggedness.24. Rolex’s headquarter has higher security than a high-level security prisonThe reasons for this are many, but one of them is the fact that the headquarter holds bars of Everose gold worth $1,000,000. The headquarter has employee fingerprint scanners, bank vault doors, iris scanners, and unmarked armored trucks to move Rolex parts from location to location. Rolex watches sure are sought-after.25. Rolex makes no watches with see-through case backsRolex doesn’t make any watches with see-through case backs, different from essentially all other luxury watch companies.There are two exceptions, however, there are two extremely rare Rolex models from the 1930s that did have see-through case backs made of glass.The reason is that for dive watches, in particular, it doesn’t make any sense, nor does it for tool watches. For a dive watch with a see-through case back, the back would have to be thicker compared to steel.Additionally, and this is the most important reason, Rolex makes high precision movements. They’re powerful and extremely reliable, but not visually interesting because Rolex’s focus is about quality and precision in first hand.26. Rolex still use IIII instead of IV on its Roman numeral dialsThe ”IIII is known as the “Clockmaker’s four”. The reason is that of aesthetics and symmetrical balance.27. Rolex watches haven’t always cost as much as todayToday, Rolex is seen by many people as a sign of wealth. And this, of course, makes sense considering that Rolex watches cost quite a lot of money -something that is clearly reflected in the quality of the watch, and which has been made obvious by many of the already listed facts about Rolex.With Rolex’s increased demand came also higher prices – much according to the supply and demand principle, and the goal to make Rolex watches exclusive.The average cost of a Rolex in 1981 was about $900. In 1991, the average price had jumped to $2350. And even with inflation part of the equation, it’s clear to see that the price has increased significantly faster and more than what the inflation has.28. Rolex has been to the deepest point in the oceanIf you thought going to 10,916 during the bathyscaphe mission was a lot, you’ll be surprised to hear that a Rolex watch has gone even deeper than that.In 2012, James Cameron descended into the Mariana Trench on his Deepsea Challenge mission. As he did so, he wore a Rolex Deepsea Challenge, a timepiece which was guaranteed waterproof to a depth of 12,000 meters (39,370 feet).Through the whole 7 hour journey, the Rolex kept the time flawlessly.29. Rolex have four sites in SwitzerlandAt these sites/factories, Rolex employ more than 6,000 members of staff.30. Rolex retails in over 100 countriesThis is a clear evidence and a true sign of world domination.31. The Rolex watch that Roger Moore wore during the James Bond movie ‘Live and Let Die’ was auctioned off for €178,000Roger Moore wore a Rolex Submariner 5513 which was made especially for him as James Bond in the 1973 film ”Live and Let Die”.32. The ”Day” wheel on the Rolex Day-Date models is available in 26 languagesThe languages available are:EnglishGermanArabicChineseDanishSpanishBasqueCatalanEthiopianFinnishFrenchGreekHebrewDutchIndonesianItalianJapaneseLatinMoroccanNorwegianFarsiPolishPortugueseRussianSwedishTurkishThis is yet another sign of Rolex’s immense international expansion.33. In 1945, Rolex made the first wristwatch able to automatically change dateThe watch was the now iconic Rolex Datejust.34. Rolex was the first watchmaker to meet the standards of COSC for a wristwatchIn 1910, Rolex became, with its movement based on a reliable calibre from Aegler, the first manufacture to meet with the standards of COSC for a wristwatch.At that time, only pocket watches could meet the COSC precision criteria, but Rolex achieved it in a wristwatch.35. Rolex has its own team of gemologistsThe gemologist team of Rolex is working to ensure the highest quality of gemstones in the Rolex watches using gemstonesThe gemologists of Rolex buy, test, arrange and set diamonds as well as other precious stones in a number of Rolex’s models, which include gemstones.The Gemologists buy gemstones from suppliers at an astronomical level.36. Rolex was the first watchmaker to release a watch waterproof to 100mThey did so with the 1953 Submariner.37. Rolex was the first watchmaker to make a watch displaying two time zones at once38. Rolex released the first wristwatch with a perpetual rotor39. Rolex released the first watch able to automatically change both day and date on the dialThe model? The Rolex Day-Date, of course. This was with the Day-Date released in 1956.40. Rolex gained immense popularity during World War IIRolex was known for its high precision, quality, and durability, and this was traits that the military needed from their watches. As such, many pilots in the British Royal Air Force used Rolex watches during World War II. The watches, however, were often taken by Nazi soldiers because they realized just how good and reliable they were. What Rolex did, however, wassomething that contributed to its reputation substantially. Rolex offered replacements to British soldiers based only on their word, and when American soldiers, as well as Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, South African and other Allied soldiers found out about it, Rolex became a powerful symbol.41. Rolex is more about evolution than revolutionRolex is far from being a company known for its enormous revolutionary discoveries and evolutions within the watch industry. Rolex is a very conservative company in a way, still making its Submariner, GMT, and many more models based on models that they launched many years ago, and which still to this day are distinctively similar to the first watches of that model.Rolex isn’t like its competitor luxury watch brands which constantly work to make the lightest, powerful, complex, watch ever created, nor making watches solely based on trends of today.Rolex is, however, a company which constantly evolves and improves. In fact, Rolex has its very own Rolex Research Laboratory which constantly works with new innovations and inventions, and every year, dozens of patents are registered by Rolex. When thinking about Rolex and its innovation, you could call it discreet innovation. Its innovations are focused on practicality and user-friendly inventions, which ultimately makes their watches more durable, usable, functional, and more practical.ConclusionIt’s hard not to be impressed by these facts about Rolex. They show that Rolex hasn’t always been what it is today, but at the same time, they make it very clear that very early on, Rolex wasn’t like all other Swiss watch companies that it was competing with at the time, and still do today.The Rolex brand continues to dominate the luxury watch industry and a worldwide icon for precision and perfection, and it continues to evolve and innovate, but in a discreet way.SOURCE: Facts About Rolex: 41 Interesting Things you Must Know! - Millennium WatchesHope you found our answer helpful and interesting!

We are being tempted and God has empowered us to resist temptations.If a person does not want to resist temptations and chooses to sin, then he should not say that God has predestined his sin because God has asked us to obey and to resist temptations.Talking in parables, Jesus taught that God tests us by tribulation, temptation, trials, persecution and promised rewards in heaven for those who pass the tests of persecution, temptation, trials, and tribulationsJesus taught that there will be testing and some will fall away in time of temptation as written in Luke 8:13 and Mark 4:17James 1:12 teaches that people will be tested by temptations and urges us to endure the temptationsIf you are a Muslim, you will also find similar teachings in Qur’an versesWhen we analyze the verses of Qur’an, we find that it is the same message revealed by the same God, we also find in Qur’an that life is a testing period and that people will be rewarded according to their obedience and according to their good deedsWe do not have full knowledge about God, we cannot say that he allows temptations, so he is a bad God, we cannot say that since God allows suffering then he is a bad God. God has revealed that we are being tested and there are many things we do not know. That was valid thousands of years ago, those are valid now, and will be valid until the end of that temporary life.Qur’an verse 16:99 teaches that obedient believers can resist devil’s temptationsVerse 17:65 teaches that the devil has no authority to mislead people (they can resist temptations)Verse 7:30 teaches that God does not mislead people, but people are misled when they follow the devil’s temptations.That is how God has set-up the testing environmentWe are here for testing; test environment necessitates struggle between good and evil.Testing missions are not supposed to be easy and comfortable.The test questions are not supposed to be known in advance.The wealthy father has the right to test his sons before distributing the wealthThe wise father disciplines his children and prepares them for a better lifeThe obedient son who takes care of others should be rewarded better than the disobedient son who persecutes others.Regardless of how successful we are with our personal objectives; we may not feel good without addressing the high-level objective; the purpose of our existence.It is wrong to say ‘let us enjoy the journey and forget about the destination’If you find yourself in a train, you should not enjoy the beautiful scenes before first ask:why am I here? Where is the destination?We should first ask ‘what is the purpose of life?’What is the value of life if we do not know the purpose of that life?It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day... for the un-examined life is not worth living – SocratesOur life on earth is a very short period compared to the universe time scale; It could be a temporary test period.There are hundreds of verses and teachings about that as mentioned in the following answer:https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-...We have been asked to believe in God and Heaven but we have not seen God or heaven.Our fate will be determined based on that belief and on our good deeds.Why did God make it a difficult test for us?Although God knows what’s in our hearts and what each of us might do, he tests us and wants us to witness our own test results in order to admit that we have been fairly rewarded according to our achievements as recorded in the test resultsBefore the wealthy father distributes his wealth, he may want to record which son is obedient, the records are not for the father who knows, but as a testimony for people who might question the justice of their fatherAlthough the wise teacher knows the hard-working student and the lazy student, he prepares regular exams as testimonies so that the students would not say that the teacher had favored some students over the others. Exams also urge students to get prepared in order to succeedStudents should not wonder about the intention of the teacher; they are supposed to focus on what the teacher asked them to doIf God wants to set up the testing environment to test people, then we are not supposed to advise God on how to set up the terms and conditions of the testing. The students are not supposed to advise the teacher on how to prepare the exams. God has created us, and he knows how to test us.The testing questions and answers are not supposed to be disclosed before the exam; testing environment necessitates some doubts and enables different choices and different decisions.The test does not depend on the level of education, a child may say ‘I do not see the plane any more, it is going far away, it is still there but my sight does not reach it; God must be there but my sight does not reach him’, but a scientist might conclude that, ‘I do not see God, then there is no God’.The test does not depend on the level of religion education, maybe someone who never heard of the religion teachings could pass the test based on the natural original gifts of conscience and reason ‘What I do not want done to myself, I will not do to others.We may find some scholars who know the religion teachings but they accept to persecute and torture others, those are the bad trees which the prophets have warned us of them and of their bad fruits.The wise teacher sets different evaluation criteria for different grades; the students in the first grade are not evaluated as the students in the advanced degrees. We expect that the fair and wise God would evaluate people according to what they have been provided. The person who never heard of Prophets would have an easier test based on the gift of intelligence and conscience; he might get rewards for his good works and he might not be punished if not wicked.God has empowered each of us to be happy and blessed.God does not predetermine plans for us.God has delegated that task to us, it is up to us to be blessed or to be cursed.The message that God has revealed to all prophets is:‘Blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience’All prophets taught that we can earn salvation by obedience, repentance, and good deeds to help others.“In obedience and repentance is your salvation” Isaiah 30:15Based on the above, the obedient believer should be blessed in this life and should be saved in the afterlife.That is the truth which should set you free.For those who have doubts, they can ask God.All prophets have urged us to ask God and taught that God would answer us.Do not worry about how you will receive and understand the answer; God has created us and he knows how to convey his message to us.The following answers include the details:https://www.quora.com/What-are-Gods-greatest-teachings/answer/Sabri-Shahinhttps://www.quora.com/How-do-we-know-our-purpose-of-existence-in-this-world/answer/Sabri-Shahinhttps://www.quora.com/What-makes-us-happy-in-our-lives/answer/Sabri-Shahinhttps://www.quora.com/What-are-some-life-philosophies-that-cut-across-all-cultures/answer/Sabri-Shahinhttps://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-the-Holy-books-of-different-religions-Do-all-of-them-promote-love-humanity/answer/Sabri-Shahinhttps://www.quora.com/If-God-is-loving-and-caring-why-does-evil-and-suffering-still-exist/answer/Sabri-Shahin