{"title":"Jewellery, watches and related articles market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/185-jewellery-watches-and-related-articles","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"185","label":"Jewellery, watches and related articles"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 264 supply contracts for jewellery, watches and related articles through award notices on TED; the 146 of them that state a value (55.3%) add up to €134 million. EU countries together imported €31.2 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to jewellery, watches and related articles in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7113, 9102, 9101, 7117, 9113 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 15% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 345 companies have won 752 public supply contracts for jewellery, watches and related articles in 30 European countries, in 466 award notices from 329 public buyers.","8.6% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Estonia.","The five companies that win most often hold 11.7% of all awards across Europe.","19.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":752,"awardNotices":466,"winningCompanies":345,"publicBuyers":329,"awardsWithValue":361,"awardedValueEur":253912768,"localAwards":687,"foreignAwards":65,"top5Share":0.11702127659574468,"singleBidAwards":133,"awardsWithKnownBids":674,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":5,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":2036361},{"year":2024,"awards":221,"awardNotices":121,"awardsWithValue":83,"awardedValueEur":64206314},{"year":2025,"awards":264,"awardNotices":179,"awardsWithValue":146,"awardedValueEur":133738089},{"year":2026,"awards":262,"awardNotices":162,"awardsWithValue":128,"awardedValueEur":53932003}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7113","label":"Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal (excl. articles > 100 years old)"},{"hs4":"9102","label":"Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, incl. stop-watches (excl. of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal)"},{"hs4":"9101","label":"Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, incl. stop-watches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal (excl. with backs made of steel)"},{"hs4":"7117","label":"Imitation jewellery"},{"hs4":"9113","label":"Watch straps, watch bands and watch bracelets, and parts thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7116","label":"Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones \"natural, synthetic or reconstructed\", n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7114","label":"Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal (excl. jewellery, clocks, watches and parts thereof, musical instruments, arms, perfume atomizers and their atomizing heads, original sculptures, collectors' pieces and antiques)"},{"hs4":"9111","label":"Cases for wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, incl. stop-watches, of heading 9101 or 9102, and parts thereof, n.e.s."}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":27155821660},{"year":2024,"valueEur":28861317242},{"year":2025,"valueEur":31228503281}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Jewellery, watches and related articles market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/185-jewellery-watches-and-related-articles, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}