Very interesting, but nothing conclusive other than Hillary was the first to get up and down.
But what I find odd is that some of Rolex's other achievements seem to be over looked. Specifically the daring do's performed by Picard and Triste, the achievements of Chuck Yeager in his X1 while wearing he Oyster, Mercedes Gleitze, who swam the English Channel in 1927 and of course all the divers associated with Comex.
All of which helped forge Rolex's reputation for making very robust, accurate and waterproof watches - which lets face it is what the the punters wants.
Ref a certain Hollywood actors watch, I think people forget that Newman served in WW2, was a true Hollywood A lister complete with an Academy Award, raised over $400M for charity, raced and finished second at Le Mans, completed at Daytona, etc, etc plus ran a very successful race team before being induced into the SCCA Hall of fame. He even managed to get on Nixons "most hated list". All irrelevant simply because a certain Dial type used in Rolex Daytona is know as a Newman.