WATCHES & JEWELRY

The Watch & Jewelry Practice

The Watch & Jewelry practise cover a fantastic landscape where the art of time, and the beauty of jewels are competing for more aesthetic functions and beauty. 


  • Our Industry foresight and knowledge are grounded in the identification of key issues that our clients face as well as first hand experience gained from serving Brands and Business in the industry.  As the world rapidly change, we help our client navigate these shifts and  bring them tools and solutions to their  key issues.   


  • We like to work for houses and brands, that combines both categories or not. We like to work with all sorts of Brands, from independent ones, to very important ones that belongs to large international corporations. We do cover from the very high end to the premium markets, and believe that even entry price brands can benefit of our advices.

Generally we separate watch markers on one hand and jewelry makers on the other one, except for our clients that have a join activity. 

  • Of course, some of our clients have both, and in that specific case we treated together. We do advise on the general strategy, the international brand development, the marketing and sales policy, the product and collection development  We know, where those collections can be produced in the case the Brand does not have in house capacities, and we can help with the design of product, by using our own designers based in Milano and Paris, or designers we know, in Geneva and the area, Paris, and London. 

  • We do have a great experience within this practice, and know very well upstream all the manufacturing and suppliers environment, including watch movements and diamond and precious stones dealers, and down stream, the retail environment all around the world, and key markets place for this type of luxury goods. More over, we know equally well the media and the press, the digital and social Watch & Jewelry Eco system and the opinion leaders and makers of the industry. 

How can we help ? 

  • We can help you to build the right strategy for your brand and revisit options that you may have neglected or did not think about. And help you to realign your Brand strategy, integrating your team, designer, art director, marketing and sales people, production and product management. We can also assist you, and being the sounding board of strategic options, on brand extension, international development or help on some projects like E Commerce, Communication, PR, or Retail developments. 

Our Consulting Services

  • Our services covers from  Global Strategy to Operation.  Objectivity is crucial, valid data, rigorous analyses, external and internal perspectives, root causes, and explicit logic serve our foundations for objective decision making.
  • We assist, advice, work, build, and act on appropriate Brand Strategy, International Development, Sales & Marketing, Communication, Merchandising, Press & Public Relations, and  Retail channels.


Our Services




BUSINESS PRACTICE



WATCHES

We do have a strong experience within different segments of the watch industry. 

Luxury Sport Watches

  • You may be a Sport Watch Brand, all dedicated to Sport and elegance, innovative, mastering the speed, prestigious, the field of chronographs and ultimate precision. You may be committed to sports, from sailing, football, to mechanical ones, king of the most accurate timing in the world,  a Swiss or a German legend, we will help you to go further, and reach new boundaries with substantial business output. 

  • For Brands, that are new to this prosperous segment of luxury sport watches, we will show them the Do and the Don't and help them to develop this new segment. You may be a new brand, more premium than Luxury on this segment, and looking to make it a success. We will help you leveraging knowledge of the watch industry, 


Luxury Manufacture

  • You are a Swiss watch manufacture and would like to reinvent yourself, or push your development. You are a small Brand by size, and would like to develop yourselves within your Brand strategic corridor. You are more of a Traditionalist or more Modernist Art Watch Makers and went to go further, we can help you achieving your goal.   

  • You need solutions in mechanical or complication movements, you are looking to outsource movement and adapting them, or transforming them, you need help in design, in Marketing & Sales policy, in international retail development, or E commerce or digital business, we are your strategic and Business advisers. 

  • We know about craftsmanship, movements, cases, dials. Hands, bracelets, quality, precision, time honored commitment, innovations, blending traditions and modernity. 

  • You need help on how to structure your manufacturing capacities, need to think your supply chain, your production and method department, your R&D, your product management! we can help you with an inner knowledge and true experience and benchmarking, 

Modern Luxury Watch

  • You are a modern contemporary Brand, you are looking for time concepts, creativity, innovation, you want to stir the watchmaking industry, give a real momentum to your brand, stay ahead of your competitors, reinvent yourself without betraying yourself, and lead a tremendous and impressive growth, we can help you to reach success, and brought you records and awards. 

Fashion Watch

  • You are a fashion house and want to extend your Brand offer, and come with the right times pieces that will feet your strategy. We can help you from scratch and help to build completely your Business, helping you with Strategic, Business, and Operational Plans. 
  • And we will help you to execute them all, from the product collection design, the manufacturing, the distribution, without neglecting your marketing & sale communication. 


Avant Garde - High Tech Watch

  • Your approach is all digital, futuristic, advanced, steam punk! 
  • We will be able to address all sort of business and strategic issues with you. 
  • We like to explore new territories, and our creativity can prove to very beneficial to some brands we have helped within that fields. 


Jewelry Watches

  • You are a Jewelry Brand, and would like to address then watch market ? You have an existing collection, but you are looking for a new business momentum. We will help you through all the process, in order to create or to develop a watch jewelry category that will be perfectly aligned with your Brand strategy and jewelry collection. 



BUSINESS ADDED VALUES

Brand Ambassadors
Of course, we are also able to find the right brand ambassadors, that could be a great actress or actors, famous golfer, polo player, business man, members and royal families,  or artists, and that will help to epitomized the prestige or the performance do such specific brands. 

Innovations
We will be able to help you to find innovation, breakthrough in terms of movements or features in line with your brand strategy and territory. 
We are well connected to all the different members of watch organization, professionals, elite circles, and know 

Design
You are looking to give more identity to your Design, product collection lines, without betraying your own philosophy, we are here to help. 

Branding
You need more consistency and constancy in the execution of your Brand Strategy, you believe that they are some missing links, we can help you to identify them and reassess to the full benefit of your Brand. 

Communication 
You need help in the Communication to help your Brand to get more visibility on a global scale. Your internal team needs help for social media, events management, advertising planning, digital communications, Media ? 

Retail
You need to build a powerful network combining boats points of sales and exclusive boutiques in synergy with your E Commerce site ? You need to rethink new formats of retail, enter the travel market, a specific country, cities, or need multi-brands retailers in a given city, a agent or a wholesaler, we can help you too. 

All those Business Added Value Programs will be leveraged by our LUXURY INDUSTRY SERVICES. 



JEWELRY

  • You may be a house of high jewelry create since the XVII or XVIII centuries, that has been worn by emperors,master of Europe, empress, with fashionable land sentimental inspiration, with plenty " savoir faire", archive, a museum, workshop masters, creativity and excellence, and...nevertheless facing difficulties in the current economic environment. Or slow down in your activity. How to face it ? What are the solutions you could bring to solve this specific issue ? 

  • You are looking for new retail developments, new boutiques, new places to be in capitals cities and urban centers ? 

  • You need fresh creativity for your new jewelry and  watchmaking creations that will embody your exceptional "Savoir Faire"   ? 

  • You are looking for a new line, that will be incremental in term of business and that will not cannibalize your existing business ? You need to go faster but all your team are overloaded ! 

  • You are a Classic or a Modern House of Jewelry ? You are the balance of both, with highly distinctive style ? You are proposing those timeless jeweler ? Your Brand is even stronger and you are thinking to offer watches, leather accessories and bags, and perfumes. 


  • You even have a new project of going further and would like to develop or licence your brand name around fragrances, luxury hotels or any other category. We can be at your side, as a Strategic, Business, Creative  adviser.  We can help you to find new ways to express creativity find inimitable concept, making out of your Brand a real doing, thinking and living luxury entity, and getting extra revenues out of it.


Our INDUSTRY PRACTICES & SERVICES  will back you on all projects and at all stages.