Montrichard Group

25/03/2020

As the saying goes...All that glitters is not gold, but it just may be better than gold. Find out how watchmakers create special metal alloys that make your luxury watch beautiful and tough...

In developing innovative new precious metal alloys, watchmakers are working to make timepieces both tougher and more beautiful than ever.

16/03/2020

There are over 150,000 daily live listings for luxury watches on eBay and a watch is sold every 5 seconds. Learn how eBay Pulled Off Becoming One of the Largest Luxury Watch Marketplaces in the World...

Sam Bright, Vice President and General Manager of Verticals at eBay discusses how the mega e-commerce platform has successfully infiltrated the secondary luxury watch market in an increasingly competitive field.

08/03/2020

Standout designs that tell time in unique ways.

With boundary-breaking watches from companies like HYT, Ressence, and Urwerk, you don’t tell the time, you feel it.

26/02/2020

In recent years Maurice Lacroix has focused on Asian markets such as China, Hong Kong, and Thailand with events and social media marketing focused on millennials which represent a growing luxury watch market.

Maurice Lacroix, a Swiss luxury timepiece brand with 45-year history, recently launched a new line in its ‘AIKON’ collection, among others, at the “Aikonic Novelties of 2020 Collection” event.

17/02/2020

America’s oldest watchmaking guild is keeping the art and science of horology alive. "The Henry B. Fried Scholarship was designed to ensure future generations of watchmakers."

Are you a watchmaking student? Apply now for awards up to $10,000!

03/02/2020

The world’s first European Grand Seiko Boutique will open in Paris in March in the city’s historic Place Vendôme and house the biggest Seiko collection outside of Japan.
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23/01/2020

The Watchmaker Apprentice Training School is being established as a centre of excellence. The first apprentices commenced training at the School on 6th January 2020.

16/01/2020

This week, Montrichard is glad to present another success story: eWatchfactory Corp and its President Jim Herbert on how they’ve become a key distributor.

Jim is able to maintain an ever-rotating collection of over 1200 different Disney designs without or over-inventory issues. As a Disney distributor, this offers him a competitive advantage. He’s able to develop micro-inventories quickly to respond to new Disney movies without long lead-times or high MOQs.

Today, EWatchFactory has become one of the most agile Disney distributors on the US market and has been labelled as a . Explore how Jim has achieved so much by leveraging FINS and its JIT supply chain.

Recently, we had the pleasure of meeting with Jim Herbert to discuss about how he uses FINS, Montrichard’s Just-In-Time supply chain management software.

16/01/2020

With long term vision in mind and a bid to promote deeper engagement with its users, Panerai has launched a new care program that officially extends the warranty on its watches by up to eight years.

Jean-Marc Pontroué, CEO of Panerai, said the initiative represented a “proactive form of engagement with consumers and at the same time a way to strengthen the sense of belonging to the Panerai community”.

Highlight of new care programme is extended warranty terms on models bought within the past two years

31/12/2019

A Finnish start-up business promising to fuse the best of social media and ecommerce platforms into a single solution for watch lovers.

The initial line-up of brands at launch on Soma include Singer Reimagined, Ball Watches, Hanhart, Gallet, Aevig, Schwarz Etienne, Tockr, and Formex.

23/12/2019

New tools for watch buyers and sellers...Chrono24 has added a Watch Scanner to its smartphone app that is designed to identify a watch and display its current market value with just one photo from the phone’s camera.

Secondary market platform claims it can recognise and price 15,000 watches from a simple snap in its mobile app. WatchPro puts it to the test.

16/12/2019

The Camden Watch Company likes to adopt historic references from its North London neighbourhood in its timepieces with a watch paying tribute to the Punk movement that was born in the area in the 1970s.

Having taken design inspiration from the Victorian architecture of Camden, London watchmaker is delving into its more recent cultural history with a watch paying tribute to the Punk movement that