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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Krugerrands and silver bars, a Rolex watch, a red Jeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Country for a Rolex | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...similarly transformed. More than a million Chinese have become dakuan, or dollar millionaires, and as much as 5% of the population is affluent by Chinese standards. In 1978 Li Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit his job at the Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out for China | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...suppose we could sell rights to The Game, too, but we doubt Harvard would settle for anything less than The Rolex Game. And Rolex probably isn't interested...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Pets, Politics, Procrastination | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

With his victory two days ago over Dartmouth's Dan Coakley, 7-6(4), 6-2, Meringoff won his second straight Rolex title and qualified himself for the National Championships in February, a tournament he also competed in last year...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Meringoff Makes It Two Years in a Row | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

That attitude showed on the court in Meringoff's defeat of Coakley in the Rolex Invitational final...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Meringoff Makes It Two Years in a Row | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

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