Last week, the Skav team visited the “New Russian Style” fair in Moscow. The fair is a large-scale show promoting jewelry and watches for the Russian market. While visiting, Skav got the opportunity to get a better understanding of how the Russian jewelry and watch market works.

Despite the fact that the fair consisted of 80% jewelry and 20% watches, it was a very meaningful experience for Skav and some interesting contacts have been made. The coming months will show if we can build on the fundaments made during this show. Here are some pictures to get an impression of the fair.

At the same time, at the Olympiyski Indoor Arena in Moscow, several contestants from all over Europe were fighting for a spot in the final of the “Eurovision Song Festival”.
Because the Dutch “Toppers” didn’t make it to the final, Skav was quietly rooting for Yohanna from Iceland. The fact that two of her band members were wearing a Skav watch during the finals had absolutely nothing to do with it. Below you can find the picture of 2 background vocals totally happy with their Skav watch€¦€¦

In front of more than a 1 million viewers, Iceland came in second place behind Norway. To watch the live version of the Iceland song “Yohanna – is it true” click here.

Friends of Skav

On Wednesday 13 May, we held a small party for friends and family of the Skav team. This was the moment that people could finally see with their own eyes, where members of the Skav team have been talking about for the past months.
We were happy and very proud with the response we got that evening. Again a confirmation that our design choice is supported by all kinds of different people.

Skav is official sponsor of copa Amsterdam

Skav has become an official sponsor of Gestion Copa Amsterdam. This is a well respected soccer tournament that is held every year in Amsterdam for players under 19 years of age. In the fifth edition of this tournament, different teams from well known clubs like Real Madrid (Spain), Chelsea (England), and Ajax (Netherlands), will play to win the title this year. It is a three day tournament held in the weekend of May 30th. Skav is very happy to sponsor an activity like this to keep young people active and healthy.
During the tournament, Copa Amsterdam has set up a charity event. On Saturday night, several items from sponsors will be up for auction. The auction is in favor of the Clinic Clowns Foundation. They cooperate with Cope Amsterdam to raise money for sick and handicap children. The Clinic Clown foundation tries to make them forget about their though situation and put a smile on their faces.
Skav will provide 3 watches that will be up for auction that night. With this contribution Skav wants to show their appreciation for the Clinic Clowns and hopes that the raised money can make a few extra kids forget about their disease.
For more information about the tournament, check www.copa-amsterdam.nl

Share your experience

The Skav team is designing watches for you! This means that we cannot do it without your input. Your thoughts on new designs, how you like the watch, where did you buy it, etc, etc.
This is all very valuable information for us. To make your voice heard you can visit our blog at http://blog.skav.com .
Or you can become a member on Linkedin and join our group of users “love Skav Watches” on this webpage.

Skav in the press: New articles

Over the past weeks, Skav has been under the attention again of several magazines and even a radio station. Because Skav is featured in the (inter)national press for quite some time now, more and more magazines request interviews with Skav; “Impressie” is one of them. This interview with Henk van Velthoven, co-founder of Skav and owner of a jeweler store in Heemstede, is in Dutch and covers 2 pages. We also appeared in the Scandinavian special of Jeweline.
To view the article of “Impressie” or the parts of the special that concern Skav, Click on the cover of de the magazines.

At our website under “latest news” you can find all other magazines where Skav was presented in. www.skav.com/news
The radio station responded after Skav send out a press release. Radio “Noord-Holland” was interested in finding out more about the brand and requested an interview with co-founder Frans Horsten. During a 7 minute interview, Frans explained how Skav differs from all other watch brands. And what Skav is all about; “Scandinavian design with a Dutch twist”