Mercedes Gleitze News & Updates

Why This $1.3 Million Rolex Is One of History’s Most Important Watches

The “Paul Newman” Daytona. The “Bao Dai.” The Oyster Perpetual that scaled Everest. All of t...

Oct 03, 2025 • GQ

Film on first British female Channel swimmer

Mercedes Gleitze at her successful attempt to become the first woman to swim the Straits of Gibralta...

Mar 08, 2024 • BBC

Incredible story of £1million prototype Rolex worn by first British woman to swim the Channel

Mercedes Gleitze was given the waterproof, pre-patent 'Oyster' wristwatch by Rolex's co-founder just...

Oct 03, 2025 • MSN

Not to mention the four-minute tourbillon from Breguet that realized $2,334,960 at Sotheby's latest watch sales.

Sotheby’s latest watch events went rather swimmingly. The auction house’s earnings in Geneva yes...

Nov 09, 2025 • Robb Report

Freestyle Digital Media Takes North America For Mercedes Gleitze English Channel Swimmer Biopic ‘Vindication Swim’

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen ...

Aug 05, 2025 • Deadline.com

Mercedes Gleitze: Film celebrates first British woman to swim English Channel

Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1927. In the same year s...

Jan 23, 2022 • BBC

The late Mercedes Gleitze famously wore the Rolex Oyster as she crossed the Channel in 1927.

The timepiece that helped cement Rolex as a maker of impenetrable tool watches is heading to auction...

Oct 06, 2025 • Robb Report

Trailer for drama ‘Vindication Swim’ about Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming British film Vindication Swim which is about Mercedes Gleitze,...

Nov 29, 2023 • thehollywoodnews

Pioneering swimmer Mercedes Gleitze returns to Edinburgh on 95th Anniversary

The award-winning hit film, Vindication Swim, will be screened at the historic Cameo cinema on Octob...

Oct 10, 2024 • edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Inside Rolex’s Shanghai exhibition celebrating the Oyster’s 100th anniversary

Oyster Story’ traces the history of the brand’s first waterproof wristwatch, from Mercedes Gleit...

Jun 11, 2026 • South China Morning Post

Blue Plaque unveiled in Brighton to swimming hero Mercedes Gleitze

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Tod...

Jan 23, 2022 • The Argus

New Fabrica exhibition tells story of Brighton's Mercedes Gleitze

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Tod...

Sep 29, 2022 • The Argus

Waterproof Rolex worn by first British woman to swim the Channel up for auction

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the st...

Oct 03, 2025 • The Independent

Brighton's forgotten swimming hero Mercedes Gleitze to be honoured with blue plaque

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Tod...

Jan 19, 2022 • The Argus

Rolex worn on Channel swim could fetch up to £1m

The watch worn by the first British woman to swim the English Channel on an unsuccessful subsequent ...

Oct 02, 2025 • BBC

Mercedes Gleitze - the untold story of a pioneering swimmer

Mercedes Gleitze was born in Brighton in 1900. A love of sea swimming turned into an extraordinary c...

Jan 22, 2022 • BBC