How to become a Watch Designer | Career Prospects

Eligibility Process Prospects Salary

Watch Designer as the name itself reveals is a professional who is expert in designing watches. Watch Designer is an expert in designing various kinds of watches in trend or one can say that he designs the watches to make it a trend. He is apt to designs sporty looking watches, high fashion watches, youthful watches, classical watches and ultra-modern high-end watches. Watch designers have that special bent of mind to grasp the need of the target consumer and apply that requirement functionally and tastefully through design to the watches. If you have good practical, artistic and technical/scientific approach then you are the person fit for becoming a Watch designer.

Watch Designer Eligibility

Educational Qualification
The minimum acceptable educational qualification required to become a Watch Designer is a Bachelor’s Course in Designing after +2.

Watch Designer Required Skills

The most important skill for a prospective Watch Designer is to be sensible to minutes detail, have good presentation and conceptualization.
An expert Watch Designer should have that Creative spark in it. He should have a sense of form and proportion, a good knowledge of market demand and trends, perfect knowledge of materials to be used and passion for miniaturization
A prospective Watch Designer should be observant and an open mind with an ability to learn and relearn
To be successful in his work a good Watch Designer should have respect for the design to understand the needs and desires.
Ability to analyse and resolve things can be an added trait for becoming a master Watch Designer.

How to become a Watch Designer?

An aspiring Watch Designer has to follow the following given step on his way to becoming a qualified Watch Designer.

Step 1
After completing your +2 in any stream you can join some good institute to do a course on the product, industrial or accessories designing. However, joining a graduation level like - Bachelors in Accessory Design or some related field - course after +2 is a better option. There are many institutes offering courses in these subjects. You may have to take an entrance test like NID Entrance Exam to join some of the best institutes of the filed.

Step 2
After completing your Graduation you have the option to either go for some job in reputed Watch Houses for on job experience or join some PG courses like Post Graduate Diploma in Designing etc. further your knowledge in the field.

List of Institutes Providing Courses required to become Watch Designer

Watch Designer Job Description
Watch Designer job includes designing watch according to the demand of consumers in the market. Not only designing the watches but also his job description includes understanding the needs and requirements of their customer base and conceptualize them into his designing to suit their requirement.

Watch Designer Career Prospects

According to some report in coming 10 to 15 year, the growth rate of India wrist Watch market will be more than 15%. It is a clear indication that the Watch Designer will have field days in years to come. However, they are in great demand even at the present time. There is great demand for efficient Watch Designers in Big Watch Houses like Titan, Sonata, Maxima, Ajanta as well as in small companies who have a quite a good share in the India market.

A fresh Watch Designer can start from a small watch company to gain some on the job experience. Once your work is appreciated and accepted by the market then the sky is the limit for your work sphere.

With the entry of Mobile companies in the Sports watch markets the career prospects of Watch Designer has increased much fold.

Watch Designer Salary

There are no upper or lower limits for a good Watch Designer. It all depends you’re your qualification, your position in the setup and of course the Watch House you have joined. Besides as and when your experience increase your pay packages keep on getting jumps. To have rough estimates you can get an initial pay package as good as Rs.30,000 to Rs.40,000 depending upon your skills and the company you join. It increases as the experience increases.