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Oceanaut Watches Co-Founder To Guest Host on Jewelry Television

We are excited to announce that President and Co-founder of Oceanaut Watches, Frances Blair, will be making special guest appearances on Jewelry Television on Wednesday, September 28th, at 1pm and 9pm Eastern time.  These shows will offer dozens of styles at discounted JTV prices--the same styles found  at high-end department stores selling for the full Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. And see the World Premier of two new Oceanaut styles, each in Rose, White, and Yellow tones--you won't want to miss this opportunity to own luxury timepieces at a fraction of the retail price!  Oceanaut if a favorite brand among celebrities, and you can visit the Oceanaut Watches website to see photos and videos of who's wearing what Oceanuat.

Oceanaut watches evoke a lifestyle of luxury and fashion.  Classic designs, with bold dial colors, textured and two dimensional dials, curved cases and sapphire crystals are some of the details appreciated by the Oceanaut consumer.  Oceanaut offers unique designs, made by master craftsmen using only high quality Swiss components, genuine diamonds and ceramic.  This attention to detail and workmanship is what makes Oceanaut a true timepiece. 

Frances and Danny Blair founded the Los Angeles based company over a decade ago.   Their desire was to bring a fresh and fashion forward look to the classic watch.  The brand hit American television networks with a bang, as Danny was the first show host dedicated to selling only watches. The demand for Oceanaut quickly landed them in high-end department stores and selected fine jewelers across the nation.  With Hollywood being virtually in their back yard, the word quickly spread among “A” list celebrities, Athletes, Music Industry professionals and watch collectors.  Oceanaut can be seen across the nation on award winning prime time television shows, in reality series, and celebrity talent shows.       

 

 

 

 

 

 

JTV Watches: News from Baselworld 2011, JTV Watch Buyer Jessica Sheridan

JTV Watch Buyer, Jessica, shares what she saw in Basel, Switzerland at the Baselworld 2011, the watch industry's Big Show. 

I arrived into Switzerland at 6:45am Switzerland time (1:45am back home) after a 9 hour flight from Atlanta, Georgia. The flight went by pretty quick for me. I haven’t been to the Baselworld show since 2008, but it is amazing how familiar it all was to me when I landed and started my venture. After I got my suitcase, I boarded a train to Lucerne which is where I will be staying for the week. It is about an hour train ride into Basel every day, but I love taking the train here. It is so peaceful and gives me time to wind down at the end of each day.  Since the show doesn’t start until tomorrow, I spent most of my day walking around window shopping. Of course since I am in Switzerland, just about every other store you walk by is a watch store--every brand and style you can imagine. I can’t wait to get into the show tomorrow and see all of the new trends that will be revealed! 

Today was the start of Baselworld 2011 and what an amazing day! The energy at this show is prevalent throughout as hundreds of thousands of people are all in one place admiring the new and exciting watches that top watch brands are introducing.  Not to mention, the booths that are designed for each brand are unreal!  One of the first booths that I saw had the largest fish tank inset into the booth with hundreds of fish swimming around. (see picture).  Top Brands spend so much time and money designing and building their booths each year for Baselworld and it shows.  I saw everything from large marble staircases to huge waterfalls designed into booths. 

In the four days that I attended the show, I saw everything in watches from classic styling to the most unique forms of art.  One of the most unique watches that I saw was one that the entire dial and bezel was made from actual volcano ash.

Common trends for ladies watches that I saw throughout the show were white watches, quite a bit of ceramic watches or at least more affordable versions that had the look of ceramic.  Many brands are also experimenting with different ways to embellish the dials; floral patterns of crystal, painted enamels and filigree styling.  I really liked this trend I saw because it allows you to have a more classic look to your watch, but add some color and fun by the dial artwork. 

I am so excited that I was able to find several watches and categories of watches that I am sure our customers are going to love!  Stay tuned to future blog updates as these watches start to make their way to us here at JTV and hopefully on your wrists in the near future!

Life in Switzerland, outside of the show….

I got so lucky in that I was given a hotel room that had a balcony that overlooked the river in Lucerne.  Each morning before I started my day and each evening I sat on the balcony, drinking wonderful coffee and just taking in all of the beauty of this amazing city in Switzerland.  Ducks and swans swam together throughout the river and each day the swans would swim up to anyone that had food and eat bread right out of their hands.  I even saw a few walk up the steps near the river to fetch the bread.  Each night the streets were full of people eating outside by the river, bagpipes and music playing in the background and church bells chiming.  And did I mention the food is AMAZING!  From Italian to traditional Swiss, I never had a mediocre meal the entire time. 

I’m finishing up the blog on the plane headed home with only 3 hours left of a 9 hour flight.  I am exhausted but full of energy at the same time. I am so excited to see my family and to get back to JTV for our “Watch This Watch Expo” starting on Wednesday, March 30th.  You won’t be disappointed with the variety of watches JTV will be showing, and some of our most popular items are back in stock for the event, plus we will offer special pricing throughout the event! 

Signing off from 30,000 feet!
Jessica, JTV Watch Buyer

JTV Heads to Switzerland for Baselworld - The World's Watch and Jewelry Show

JTV Watch Buyer, Jessica Sheridan, has packed her bags and is excitedly preparing to travel to Switzerland to attend the watch show of all watch shows--Baselworld! Taking place from March 24th through March 31st, 2011, Jessica will be scouring the show floors for the best of the best in quality timepieces to bring back to the Jewelry Television audience. She's seeking new brands that offer styles to suit everyone, precision craftsmanship, and, of course, unparalleled value for the money! Here's a few points about the show that I got from Jessica recently:

• In Basel, you are visiting the world's biggest and most important event for the watch industry.
• BASELWORLD offers you a unique overview of everything that the industry has to offer globally.
• It is here that you can see the new watch collections, creations and innovations of the year: trends are set at BASELWORLD.
• The world's most renowned watch brands showcase their collections exclusively at BASELWORLD and do not attend any other shows.
• BASELWORLD offers you the rare opportunity to speak to the CEOs and owners of the watch brands in person.
• Here JTV will take part in the watch sector's main networking event. All the key players from the watch industry meet up just once a year: in Basel, each spring!

We know Jessica will bring home a tremendous selection of watches sure to please our discriminating JTV customers. Here's a recent customer review on this Ladies Lucien Piccard ceramic watch, JTV item number DLP002B: "This watch is beautiful... and like all of my Lucien Piccard time pieces, it is of high quality inside and out. The high end ceramic is equally as beautiful as my gorgeous $3,000 Technomarine black ceramic diamond watch. As I do not want to wear this expensive time piece all the time, I was very happy to stumble across the JTV show presenting this beautiful watch and I hurriedly ordered both the black and white and I luv luv luv them!!! I have been researching high quality ceramic watches over three years and this price/value is a super good buy." - Watchlady, St Louis, MO

Stay tuned to the blog for updates from Jessica at Baselworld. And be on the lookout as Jewelry Television and JTV.com bring you new brands and new styles in timepieces.

- Dana Sebby, JTV.com Community Manager

Timely Opportunities from JTV: Croton and Lucienne Piccard Watch Shows

Outside of a style here or there, Jewelry Television has never had the opportunity to offer the much sought after Croton timepieces, until now. JTV is pleased to announce we now have an assortment of over 100 styles of Croton watches--both men’s and ladies in automatics, chronographs, swiss timepieces, watches with gemstones--all at extremely affordable JTV prices! See some of this impressive collection on Jewelry Television tonight (Thursday, January 20) at 10pm with Nikki, or as always you can pre-shop the Croton collection on JTV.com. Shop online now, as some watches qualify for an additional 20% discount off of JTV.com's already low prices!

Today Croton Watch Company produces one of the most popular watch brands among the TV home shopping audience,  but the company has been crafting quality timepieces for well over 130 years, since 1878. All Croton watches and are supported by a rare Limited Lifetime warranty.

JTV Offers Amazing Deals on Quality Croton Timepieces for Men and Women

JTV.com item number CMW023K, Men's Croton Chronograph Watch, Stainless Steel, MSRP $375.00, JTV Price only $89.99. JTV Savings of $285.01!

         JTV.com item number CMW041T, Ladies Croton Stingray and CZ watch, MSRP $625.00, JTV.com price $154.00.                 JTV Savings of $501.00!

JTV Special Offers on Lucien Piccard Fine Timepieces

One of Jewelry Television's best-selling line of luxury timepieces Lucien Piccard, and it's no wonder when you consider the phenomenal JTV prices for such a well-known name in watches you will wear for a lifetime. These watches are also backed by a rare Limited Lifetime warranty. Jewelry Television has special Lucien Piccard segments coming up on Sunday, January 23 at 8pm Eastern with Nikki and again on Wednesday, January 26 at 4pm Eastern. Shop JTV's entire Lucien Piccard collection here.  Learn more about this luxurious brand:

 

Get 'Em While They're HOT: White Ceramic Designer Watches Only on JTV.com

Hello! Dana here, Community Manager for JTV.com, and do I ever have a fashion opportunity for you!

Remember the 1980's mega hit that growls "Well it's a nice day...for a...white wedding...?" Well, when we saw these stunning white ceramic Bianci Swiss watches we couldn't help but sing "Well it's a nice day...for some...white watches...!" Cheesy, but true. Also true: as of the writing of this blog, JTV employee sales for these watches have been banned. Seems so many of us want one, the watches are in danger of selling out before our customers have a chance at them!

Take a closer look at all of these watches here.

Watch Buyer for JTV.com, Jessica Sheridan, did a GREAT job negotiating a killer deal on these timepieces, and like all insanely good JTV deals, quantities are extremely limited.  So, even though I have my heart set on the pink-face watch, I must agree that restricting employee sales is the right thing to do for our customer's sake. (Heavy sigh.) Plus, to make sell out even more imminent, Jessica has decided to drop the price to under $200.00 for a limited time!

 

JTV item number JNW088P, Bianci Swiss Watch (and my pick)

According to a great article on TheGloss blog,  "White Watches Are Here To Stay." I already knew that fact, but the prices of the timepieces listed in the blog were a reality check for me. It's easy to get spoiled when you work at Jewelry Television, to get a bit too accustomed to shopping at prices very often below wholesale, but wow! In my opinion, the Bianci's offered on JTV.com are far more stylish, are of tremendous quality, and offer way, way, way more bang for the buck! Among their many features:

*Sapphire Crystal
*Mother of Pearl dial
*Unidirectional bezel
*Date calendar in between the 4:00 and 5:00 position
*Swiss movement!!
*Water resistant to 33 feet
*3 year warranty
*Screw down crown
*White ceramic link band
*Hidden clasp

These watches are beautifully presented in a wooden case protected by a slide-off heavy cardboard sleeve.

Good luck in getting one of these must-have timepieces, while quantities last. As the title for this blog suggests, "Get 'em while they're hot!" Only on JTV.com.

- Dana, JTV.com Community Manager