ROLEX WATCH COMPANY,LIMITED(THE)
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Cash
£66m
+42.9% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£425m
-0.8% vs 2024
Employees
197
-5.3% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£88m
-8.8% vs 2024
Watch the reel
Our short-form breakdown of ROLEX WATCH COMPANY,LIMITED(THE)'s latest filing
Rolex's UK arm sold more watches this year, but a strong Swiss Franc squeezed their margins. It didn't stop a £70m dividend payout, though. ⌚️📉
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £685,218,000 | £701,517,000 | £736,699,000 | +5% | |
| Operating profit | £65,373,000 | £97,180,000 | £87,149,000 | -10.3% | |
| Profit before tax | £65,804,000 | £96,257,000 | £87,817,000 | -8.8% | |
| Net profit | £49,877,000 | £73,314,000 | £65,783,000 | -10.3% | |
| Cash | £17,632,000 | £46,374,000 | £66,277,000 | +42.9% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £416,098,000 | £460,127,000 | £456,171,000 | -0.9% | |
| Net assets | £385,504,000 | £428,559,000 | £425,030,000 | -0.8% | |
| Equity | £385,504,000 | £428,559,000 | £425,030,000 | -0.8% | |
| Average employees | 214 | 208 | 197 | -5.3% | |
| Wages | £13,143,000 | £13,444,000 | £15,590,000 | +16% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £2,930,000 | £3,076,000 | £3,519,000 | +14.4% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £84,514 | £163,074 | — | — | |
| Highest paid director | £2,640,000 | £2,768,000 | £3,203,000 | +15.7% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.5% | 13.9% | 11.8% | |
| Net margin | 7.3% | 10.5% | 8.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.7% | 21.1% | 19.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 18.8% | 18.1% | 20.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.24x | 2.59x | 1.97x | |
| Interest cover | — | 47.47x | 46.90x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ROLEX WATCH COMPANY,LIMITED(THE) · parent
- No 19 SJS Ltd 100%
- No 32 SJS Ltd 100%
- New Bond Street House Ltd 100%
- No 19 SJS Holding Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “During the year the scheme has now been partially bought out by JUST insurance company who repaid £0.3m in February 2026 on the true up of the premium paid on buy-in.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, Deon Alan | Secretary | 2016-06-30 | — | — |
| DAVOLI, Marius Pierre | Director | 2022-07-05 | Oct 1967 | Swiss |
| DE LEYSER, Richard | Director | 2011-01-04 | Jan 1962 | British |
| PARKER, Deon Alan | Director | 2016-06-28 | May 1972 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICHARDS, Graham Edward | Secretary | — | 2016-06-29 |
| DUFOUR, Jean-Frederic Jacques Henri | Director | 2022-07-05 | 2026-02-01 |
| GROS, Bertrand | Director | 2011-06-28 | 2022-07-05 |
| HEINIGER, Patrick | Director | — | 2008-12-12 |
| MAINGOT, Roger Vernon | Director | 1993-07-05 | 2011-05-23 |
| MEIER, Bruno | Director | 2009-02-11 | 2011-05-23 |
| NELSON, John Alexander | Director | — | 1994-01-31 |
| RICHARDS, Graham Edward | Director | — | 2016-06-29 |
| THOMSON, Catherine Marie France | Director | 2009-02-11 | 2022-07-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 135 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-09-28 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-09-22 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-03-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-10-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-12-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-09-28 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-09-22 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-12-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-12-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-12-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.