The Company of Master Jewellers, a buying group representing around 150 retail jewellers, has transferred ownership of its public relations agency Facets PR to its founder and managing director Sarah Carpin. It is the first significant decision taken by the CMJ’s interim CEO Terry Boot, who took over the role this summer with a brief from […]
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THE BIG INTERVIEW: David Coleridge, managing director of Bucherer UK
It has been seven months since Bucherer’s acquisition of The Watch Gallery hit the headlines and the Europe’s biggest luxury watch retailer is ready to reveal its plans for the UK market. In his first interview since he sold his company to the Swiss giant, David Coleridge, now managing director of Bucherer UK, gives a […]
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Loomes auctions rare timepiece created for Royal Ghurkha Regiment’s successful scaling of Everest
British watchmaker Loomes is auctioning a watch made for the Royal Gurkha Regiment climbing team that reached the top of Mount Everest on May 15th this year. It was the most successful Army expedition ever to climb Everest, in getting three British officers and thirteen Nepalese RGR soldiers to the summit. The auction, run by Bonhams, will […]
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Junghans clocks up the miles on its Meister Driver Day Date
German watchmaker Junghans can trace its love and association with the motoring industry back to the late 19th century, which explains why most of its key models have an automotive aesthetic. The company’s latest Meister Driver Day Date is no exception, with its most notable design feature, a day/date display at 12 o’clock, looking like a […]
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Oris raises money for men’s health challenges via official partnership with Movember Foundation
Oris is helping to raise money and awareness for some of the biggest health issues facing men by signing on as an official partner of the Movember Foundation. The foundation, founded in 2003, aims to help men live happier, healthier and longer lives by helping charities that focus on health issues like prostate cancer, testicular cancer, […]
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Dutch Scandi-style watchmaker Rosefield makes headway in the UK
Inter City Group has entered the ultra-competitive market for minimalist Scandi-style watches with Rosefield, a brand from The Netherlands that describes its aesthetic as “Where Amsterdam meets New York City; where function meets fashion”. The brand first launched in the UK on Johnlewis.com, where it performed well enough to encourage the department store to roll […]
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G-Shock Gravitymaster survives unprotected trip into space and back
G-Shock has proved its latest GPW-2000 Gravitymaster can survive extreme conditions by sending it into the stratosphere attached to a meteorological flight balloon. The watch took off from Yorkshire, reaching the near zero gravity conditions at 44.1km above earth where the temperature was recorded at -58C. The watch survived 82 minutes in space before returning to […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Harrods moves Hublot to lower ground floor of expanded Fine Watch Room
Harrods has moved Hublot’s ground floor boutique to the lower ground floor in its plans for its expanded Fine Watch Room. Zenith and TAG Heuer will remain in a multi-brand area when the two-storey Fine Watch Room fully re-opens next year. Ricardo Guadalupe, chief executive of Hublot, told WatchPro that he he still hopes to […]
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IN VIDEO: Tissot heads to the end of the pier for its latest Swissmatics
Tissot’s Everytime automatic is a minimalist family where its clean watch face works with a range of more colourful and daring strap and bracelet options. The unisex family contains Tissot’s Swissmatic mechanical automatic movement in watches costing as little as £330. They are on sale now on the Tissot website with black or white dials in […]
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Rotary’s autumn/winter watch collections go on sale
Rotary rolls out its AW17 watch collection this week. The watches are the first to launch in more tightly curated collections with names like Cambridge, Oxford, Kensington and Henley highlighting the British heritage of the watchmaker. The watches appeared on Rotary’s own website, although retailers such as Watchshop and H.Samuel are not yet offering them online. […]
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Timex enables tap and go payments for its latest Fairfield fashion watches
Timex has introduced a leather strap for its Fairfield watch collection that contains a contactless chip for making tap and go debit card payments. The strap’s technology is provided by bPay, a contactless payment system created by Barclaycard that enables people to make instant payments of up to £30 at almost half a million point […]
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Omega unveils family portrait of its latest brand ambassadors
Omega has formally unveiled its new brand ambassadors, Kaia and Presley Gerber at a Paris Fashion Week Party. Omega is running an exhibition in Paris called Her Time that celebrates its ladies timepieces. Star of the opening night was Cindy Crawford, an ambassador for Omega for 20 years, and mother of models Kaia and Presley […]
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Mühle-Glashütte makes limited edition Rescue-Timer in aluminium bronze
Mühle-Glashütte is marking the 15th anniversary since Germany’s sea rescue force DGzRS first started using its watches with the launch of its S.A.R. Rescue-Timer in aluminium bronze. The anniversary model, which is limited to a total of 150 timepieces, will age and change colour over time, gradually providing wearers with an individual and personal companion […]
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Richemont settles civil case following breach of Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions
Richemont North America has settled a civil court case relating to exports of Cartier luxury goods in contravention of Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations. The company has agreed to pay $334,800 to settle its potential civil liability for four apparent violations of the regulation in 2010 and 2011 when exported four shipments of jewellery to […]
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Victorinox heads to Cannes to promote itself to global travel retailers
Victorinox is exhibiting at global travel retail exhibition TFWE in Cannes this week as it continues to focus on the growing channel for its watches, Swiss Army Knives, fragrances and other accessories. The company recently appointed Thomas Bodenmann as director of global travel retail with a mission to dramatically extend the reach of Victorinox across […]
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Casio G-Shock creates another limited edition with street artist Eric Haze
Casio G-Shock has released another watch designed in collaboration with a famous street artist, this time with Eric Haze, one of New York’s original pioneers of hip-hop graphic design, street wear, and artist driven limited edition products. The limited edition men’s GA700EH-1A features a brushstroke-inspired black and white colour scheme with 2017 printed on the band loop, […]
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IN PICTURES: Timex celebrates 40th Anniversary of the Easy Reader Collection
Fashion watch brand Timex celebrated its 40th Anniversary of the Easy Reader Collection last night at a central London nightclub. Customers and journalists spent the evening at exclusive nightclub Beat, where they were given a sneak peek at Timex’s SS18 collections. The latest Fairfield Contactless range, created in collaboration with with contactless payment specialist bpay, […]
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Bell & Ross adds second Instagram account to record history of watch launches
Bell & Ross has created a second Instagram feed that will act as an online catalogue for the brand and allow collectors to follow the roll-out of all new models. Over time, the new account, @bellross_chronology, will build into a reference tool featuring every launch in chronological order. It operates in tandem with @bellrosswatches, launched in 2012, which […]
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Peter Jackson debuts Aviator watches with flying lesson promotion
Bury-based jeweller Peter Jackson is offering customers the chance to win a flying lesson for two when they buy an Aviator watch. The company launched Aviator watches last weekend with a promotion that included additional branding and displays both in-store and on the stree. Staff were kitted out in Bristol Scout t-shirts, which pay homage […]
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Glashütte Original presents fine art of German watchmaking
Glashütte Original’s Senator Moon Phase Skeletonised Edition goes on sale in Watches of Switzerland this month. The timepiece has a skeletonised filigreed dial revealing the workings of its 49-13 hand-wound movement driving blued hour, minute and small second hands and a moonphase display. It is housed in a 42mm white gold case on a dark blue […]