The brand needed a first calling watch that would survive a retail buyer's technical review, carry its own branding on the device and be testable at a volume it could afford to be wrong about.
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Client Background
Who The Buyer Was
A European consumer accessories brand with an existing phone accessory range and no wearable line.
Project Challenge
The brand needed a first calling watch that would survive a retail buyer's technical review, carry its own branding on the device and be testable at a volume it could afford to be wrong about.
Customer Pain Points
Previous suppliers could not name the chipset behind a calling claim.
Branding on sample units arrived as a sticker on the case back.
Minimum quantities quoted elsewhere were larger than a first launch could justify.
Our Solution
We quoted the 1.39 inch HD bluetooth talking watch on the RTL8763EWE platform, with the chipset, sensor and battery figures published up front and the water resistance rating flagged as TBC rather than guessed.
Manufacturing Process
How The Build Ran
Specification locked in writing, with the unpublished ingress rating marked TBC.
Case backs silk printed in house during the production run rather than after it.
Brand dials loaded into the face library and the boot screen built into the firmware image.
Assembly and function test across the semi-automatic lines, followed by reliability testing.
Retail packs assembled and cartoned in the packaging workshop.
Supply Chain Coordination
Who Did What
One supplier held molding, SMT, printing, assembly and packing, so branding and packing questions were answered by the same team that built the board.
Final assembly, function test and packing all run on the same site, which is what keeps a 20-25 working day bulk lead time achievable.
Quality Control
What Was Checked
More than ten reliability and quality tests before lot release, with artwork position and colour checked against the approved sample at pre-shipment.
Final Result
A branded calling watch built at the 3,000 pc minimum on a 20-25 working day bulk lead time after deposit, backed by the standard 12 month warranty.
Customer Benefit
The brand entered the wearable category on a published specification it could defend in a buyer meeting, without funding new tooling.
