Ace Jewelers Podcast

Ace Jewelers
Ace Jewelers Podcast

Ace Jewelers Podcast - Series: “The Art of Collecting Wristwatches” (Two seasons in English) - Series: “The Ace List Live” (Three seasons in English) Ace Jewelers is a family owned and run company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This podcast has been created to share our passion about fine watchmaking, fine jewelry and diamonds. We design & manufacture diamond and fine jewelry in Amsterdam. And, we are authorized dealers for all brands listed on our website including luxury manufacturers like Omega, Tudor, Bulgari, Zenith, Zenith, Breitling, TAG Heuer, Royal Asscher and many more.

  1. The Ace List Live Epsiode 52 Hakim El Kadiri of ELKA Watch Co.

    06/09/2023

    The Ace List Live Epsiode 52 Hakim El Kadiri of ELKA Watch Co.

    After a long & distinguished career designing watches for leading Swiss watch brands, Hakim El Kadiri decided to pursue his long-time dream of creating his own brand. Nicknamed ElKa (short for El Kadiri, of course) since his early childhood, a name was quickly found. As a child of the 1960’s, the products and aesthetics of that era serve as the main source of inspiration for his newly formed brand – the Elka Watch Company.Whilst researching the name, Hakim discovered that a watch brand named Elka had previously existed. The historical brand of Elka watches was created by Dutchman Louis Eduard Kiek in 1913, ELKA being an abbreviation for Edouard Louis Kiek Amsterdam. The family-owned company operated several Kiek boutiques in Amsterdam where prestigious brands such as Rolex, Ulysse Nardin, Vulcain, Breitling, Universal, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Blancpain watches were sold -often proudly co-branded with the ELKA signature, as well as wrist and pocket watches of their own ELKA brand. They were also particularly famous for their stopwatches, timers, and chess clocks. Somewhere in the 1970s, the ELKA brand quietly disappeared. The Kiek boutiques would continue to operate until the year 2000, after which the company was dissolved.During this session Ace Jewelers’ Alon Ben Joseph sat down with his long-time friend Hakim and did a deep dove into how he designed the watches for his Elka Watch Company, one of the collections – the X-Series- and how he got inspired by an aviation instrument created by Heuer for ELKA, which featured oversized Arabic numerals from 00 to 55.Ace Jewelers is the exclusive authorized dealer for ELKA watches in the Netherlands. You can watch all The Ace List Live episodes on http://www.TheAceList.com.

    56 min
  2. The Ace List - Live with Cedric Bellon of Cedric Bellon watches - S03E11

    11/29/2022

    The Ace List - Live with Cedric Bellon of Cedric Bellon watches - S03E11

    The Ace List - Live with Cedric Bellon of Cedric Bellon watches - S03E11 Cedric Bellon is one of the most talented and most modest watch designers of our modern day. And, he is a grand advocate of sustainability. That is the reason why Ace Jewelers’ CEO Alon Ben Joseph is a big fan of the person Cedric Bellon and all the watches his partners and him designed in the studio called Bellon & Partners. Last year Cedric Bellon (finally) ventured out and made his own watch. Not only was it the first wristwatch ever made of recycled steel, but also created with watch start-up Watch Angels – a crowd funding platform for watchmakers. Obviously Alon Ben Joseph became a ‘Watch Angel’ as he supported the round and received a watch from the first batch bearing the Cedric Bellon brand name. He still wears it today. From a young age Cedric Bellon was fascinated by sciences, nature and crafts. He first studied geology and then laureated in product design at L’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique. At the age of 26 he discovered watch design and sent some concepts to Swiss watch brands. Bell & Ross, TAG Heuer and Longines gave him a chance and became his first clients. From then on, he was hooked by horology and made watch design his full-time career in 2005. Cedric is an advocate for sustainability in the watch industry. This year Cedric launched a second watch it is actually on sale right now with Watch Angels. In this episode the gentlemen discussed Cedric’s evolution as a designer and how he wants to improve sustainability in the watchmaking sector. Plus they had a great news, actually breaking news, as they announced the Ace x CB collab watch that will be presented soon. All episodes are available on http://www.TheAceList.com to watch back. #AceJewelers #TheAceList #CedricBellon #TheAceListLive #Designer #WatchDesigner #Sustainability

    1h 2m

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Ace Jewelers Podcast - Series: “The Art of Collecting Wristwatches” (Two seasons in English) - Series: “The Ace List Live” (Three seasons in English) Ace Jewelers is a family owned and run company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This podcast has been created to share our passion about fine watchmaking, fine jewelry and diamonds. We design & manufacture diamond and fine jewelry in Amsterdam. And, we are authorized dealers for all brands listed on our website including luxury manufacturers like Omega, Tudor, Bulgari, Zenith, Zenith, Breitling, TAG Heuer, Royal Asscher and many more.

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