Amazon.com's amazing jewelry & watches sales for Q3
31 Oct '06
2 min read
Amazon.com Inc announced that third quarter 2006 jewelry and watch sales increased more than 100 percent year-over-year.
Each quarter, an increasing number of Amazon.com's millions of customers are shopping the Amazon.com Jewelry & Watches store, especially for important gift-giving occasions, such as the upcoming holiday season.
"We're very excited about the growth in our Jewelry & Watches store," said Steven Goldsmith, Vice President, Amazon.com Jewelry & Watches store.
"Not only are our customers choosing to purchase shoes, electronics and beauty items from Amazon.com, but they are also choosing to make, at times, very personal purchasing decisions with us and we take that very seriously."
In addition to a 108 percent increase year-over-year in sales of engagement rings and gemstones, watch sales on Amazon.com in the third quarter increased 122 percent percent year-over-year.
With an extensive watch selection, one of the largest online, Amazon.com's Jewelry & Watches store offers 200 brands and 6,000 styles (2,400 new watch styles were added in the third quarter alone) with prices ranging from $30 to $75,000.
Customers can treat themselves to everything from a stylish Invicta watch to a diamond encrusted Cartier Tank watch or the Omega Seamaster Chronometer Watch, which is featured in the upcoming James Bond movie Casino Royale.
Top-selling watches in the third quarter included the women's Movado Amarosa watch, the Citizen Calibre 2100 Titanium watch, the Tag Heuer 2000 Aquaracer watch and the women's Bulova Diamond Bezel Chronograph watch.