About Us

The Passion of Time design
The CWI Team, Thomas Zilk Managing Director (1st picture) 
and Bernice Ackermann Director, Patrick Sebolai Manager Design (2nd picture).
                       
About fifteen years ago, our company conjured up a fantasia of wristwatch designs for the avid corporate timekeeper. Today Thomas Zilk and Bernice Ackermann, the Directors of City Watch International and their team, are the wizards of the timepiece craft, patterning each face to tell its own timeless story.

City Watch International is comprised of an expert team of watch designers that specialise in the intricacies of extraordinary corporate wrist fashion. Without a need to compete on the catwalk of dress watches and mainstream fashion labels, the CWI team are proudly operating in a league of their own.

City Watch International has turned the logo-watch industry on its head, doing away with bland replicas of company branding and instead, investing more time in their client’s imagination. While the company is renowned for its unique personalised service, the group is by no means a logo-watch enterprise. “We do not operate in that genre,” says Zilk, “we don’t print logos on our watches; our aim is to re-create the corporate message for our clients and to reflect (not replicate) their corporate identity in our design.”

Since its inception in 1993, City Watch International has been associated with high-profiled brands such as BMW, Nestle, American Airlines, Nashua, Mercedes Benz and others alike. The Company has also embarked on a number of public awareness projects, creating timepieces for The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and Aids Awareness projects. 

With a plethora of unisex watches, sports watches and chronographs, clients are able to hand pick the design that best suits their brand, the occasion or quite simply, their childhood fantasy. City Watch South Africa boasts the internationally certified stamp of ISO 9001:2008, being the only watch designers in South Africa to have achieved this accreditation. Clients are thus ensured of a product that not only stands out from the crowd but that also stands the test of time, as each piece comes with brand movements from Citizen, Swiss ETA or TMI and a two year warrantee.

So, what makes this watch emporium design leaders in their field?
“Choice,” says Ackermann, “it’s all about the choice. There are no limitations to our designs. We can turn a watch into anything you want.” 

While the team of watch designers at CWI dapple in the whimsical world of tick-tock fancy, the fantasy element continues to set them apart from the rest. There is no more sophisticated way of bringing your client’s or your company brand to life than with your very own personalised high quality custom-designed corporate wrist watches. Each watch is a product of brand personality and endless possibility. With over 50000 strap and hand designs, 3 600 pantone colours in both matt and high gloss to choose from, City Watch International puts the “custom” back into customize… right down to the very last tick.

 

Customized Watches for your Customers, Employees and for Members of Clubs and Organizations as: corporate gift watch, anniversary gift watch, Christmas gift watch, sales incentive watch, trade incentive watch, watch for brand building and development, merchandising, awareness campaigns, product launch, long service award, performance award, birthdays, fund raising, club membership, affiliation watch, exhibition and trade show promotions, seminar and conference gift, participants gift, sports club membership, social events, souvenir watch, private label watch.