 When Wilsdorf heard of this, he offered to replace all watches that had been confiscated and not require payment until the end of the war, if the officers would write to Rolex and explain the circumstances of their loss and where they were being held.Wilsdorf personally oversaw this effort.Hans Wilsdorf and his first wife, Florence Frances May Wilsdorf-Crotty, never had any children, and she died from an illness in 1944.