SUPERLATIVE: The Alliance Of British Watch And Clock Makers With Roger Smith And Mike France

This week on the SUPERLATIVE podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by two key members from the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers, Mike France, and Roger Smith. Together with being the CEO of Christopher Ward, Mike France can also be one of many Co-Founders of the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers, and along with being greatest often known as the protege of the late George Daniels and one of many world’s biggest dwelling watchmakers, Roger Smith can also be the chairman of the Alliance. To begin the episode, Roger offers us an introduction to the Alliance and its core mission, together with what British watchmaking means in the present day. Mike then talks concerning the measurement and scope of the British watchmaking trade, and the way changing into extra self-reliant with regard to manufacturing will finally result in higher progress and a extra steady long-term future. Roger and Mike each supply some perception into how the British watchmaking trade can re-industrialize within the fashionable period, and the way collaborations between corporations can finally promote higher synergistic progress all through all the trade. Because the present involves an finish, Ariel asks our visitors about a number of the subsequent steps for the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers and the way different individuals and types can be part of and turn into members themselves.

Formally shaped in 2020, the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers was created with the aim of selling and cultivating watchmaking within the UK. Primarily based on an inclusive and collaborative strategy, the Alliance goals to nurture the resurgence of British watchmaking and finally assist create a extra steady and thriving trade. At the moment consisting of greater than 75 totally different manufacturers from the higher United Kingdom, the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers additionally has a Membership Membership program that’s open to any people who share a ardour for UK watchmaking and wish to be half in laying the muse of its future.

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