Watches
Watches hold a unique position in the jewellery trade, blending craftsmanship, design, and technology to create enduring appeal for consumers and lucrative opportunities for retailers. From luxury Swiss timepieces to emerging British watch brands, the sector continues to evolve with shifting trends, innovation in materials, and changing customer expectations. Jewellery Focus covers the watch industry from a trade perspective, offering news on brands and launches, market analysis, retail insights, and updates on supply chain and distribution. Our coverage equips jewellers, distributors, and suppliers with the intelligence needed to navigate this dynamic segment.
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Dec- 2020 -8 DecemberRetailers
Watches of Switzerland opens Knightsbridge Showroom
Watches of Switzerland Group has announced the opening of its Knightsbridge flagship, which features a new 1,377 sq. ft Rolex showroom. The original flagship opened back in 2016 and was part of the brand’s ‘golden triangle’ retail offering, along with its Oxford Street and Regent Street showrooms. The new showroom…
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3 DecemberRetailers
Watches of Switzerland opens Liverpool Street showroom
Watches of Switzerland has opened a new showroom in London’s east end. The group has chosen 100 Liverpool Street, Broadgate to open the latest Watches of Switzerland showroom, near where the company first began trading on Ludgate Hill in 1924. The showroom opened it doors yesterday (2 December) and the…
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Nov- 2020 -30 NovemberDesigners
CuleM Watches launches sustainability mission
CuleM Watches has launched a “bold” sustainability pledge in order to set a new environmental standard for the luxury watch industry. Some 3% in sales will be donated to conservation and humanitarian causes, allowing customers to “protect the planet” through purchasing its timepieces. The watch designer has also protected 65…
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26 NovemberNews
Time and More UK announces watch expansion
Time and More UK has announced the further expansion of its portfolio which will include the introduction of Roamer of Switzerland watches, Jacques Du Manoir and JDM Military. The brands will be exclusively distributed in the UK in December 2020. Roamer of Switzerland, which was founded in Solothurn, Switzerland in…
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23 NovemberCurrent Affairs
Lewis Hamilton loses legal battle with Hamilton watches
Lewis Hamilton has lost his legal battle to block Hamilton International, a luxury Swiss watchmaker, from trademarking the name ‘Hamilton’. The Formula 1 driver claimed the watch manufacturer’s trademark prevented “fair competition” and attempted to prevent the company from registering its brand in Europe. The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)…
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18 NovemberDesigners
Marloe Watch Company reveals latest addition
Marloe Watch Company has revealed the latest addition to its range of British designed mechanical watches. The new Atlantic collection features an automatic mechanical chronoscope with four distinct models inspired by the “dawn of transatlantic air travel” – R34, Flyer, Fortune and Spirit. The company said a limited number of…
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17 NovemberDesigners
Berluti and Hublot announce limited edition watches
Berluti and Hublot’s partnership has announced the launch of a 100 limited editions Big Bang Unico chronograph watches. The partnership, which began four years ago, has focused on bringing together a collaboration of both the watchmakers’ experience with the fashion house’s designs. Both companies reportedly worked “hand in hand”, with…
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16 NovemberCrime
Robbers steal £100,000 from Cambridgeshire jewellers
Cambridgeshire Police have released video footage of four masked men breaking into a jewellery store in Ely at around 3am on 13 November. Police were called to Italian Jewellery in the early hours of the morning to reports of a break in at the store on Ely’s High Street Passage.…
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11 NovemberDesigners
Watches of Switzerland partners with Breitling on timepiece
Breitling has launched an exclusive timepiece to celebrate its long-standing partnership with Watches of Switzerland. Limited to 150 pieces, the timepiece has been designed in collaboration and available exclusively at Goldsmiths, Mappin & Webb, Watches of Switzerland and Mayors (US). The new Premier B01 Chronograph 42, the Watches of Switzerland…
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Oct- 2020 -27 OctoberAuctions
Heur Skipper watch sale breaks Fellows record
A ‘one-of-twenty’ Heuer Skipper watch has broken the house record for the most expensive Heuer to have sold at Fellows Auctioneers, selling for a full price of £57,420. The sale was completed on 26 October in Fellows’ Luxury Watch Sale. Originally designed in the late sixties to celebrate Emil Mosbacher’s…
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