It only seems like yesterday that women were a novelty in the higher creative echelons of the watch business. Five years ago, watch design was predominantly a man’s world. Women customers mainly wore quartz models and many designs were small or bejewelled versions of men’s styles.
Much has changed. The sustained economic boom of the mid-noughties saw women buying more and larger watches and taking an interest in what went on under the bonnet, as it were.
