Insurance Professionals Report an Average 17% Rise in Luxury Watch Claims, According to New Research

10^th June 2026 — The Watch Register, the world’s largest and most established international database of lost and stolen luxury watches, reports new research²  that highlights a significant increase in insurance claims relating to the loss and theft of high-value watches.

The study, conducted amongst 100 insurance loss adjustors and claims managers across the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, reveals that luxury watch-related claims have risen markedly in recent years.  When asked how claims volumes have changed compared to three years ago, two-thirds (67%) of respondents reported an increase of between 10% and 25%, while a further 9% cited even sharper rises of between 25% and 50%.  Overall, insurers reported a mean average increase of 17% in luxury watch claims over the period.  Insurance respondents in Asia reported the highest mean average increase in claim volumes (21%) compared with an average of 15% in the US.

The findings suggest that the volume of watch-related claims will continue to increase.   More than half (54%) of respondents anticipate claims will rise by a further 10% to 25% over the next three years, while nearly one third (32%) expect increases of between 25% and 50%.  A smaller proportion (2%) predict even more significant growth of up to 75%.  The mean average anticipated increase stands at 24%, underlining the expectation that luxury watch theft will remain a persistent and growing challenge for insurers globally.

Additionally, given the high circulation of stolen goods on the market, three in four (77%) of insurance respondents report seeing an increase in defective title claims from jewellers’ block policy holders who have unwittingly purchased stolen watches. The majority (83%) of insurers say they are now taking steps to mitigate risk by only paying out defective title claims for watches on the condition that the policy holder has carried out due diligence prior to the transaction by checking a stolen watch database.

Katya Hills, Managing Director of The Watch Register, said: “Insurance professionals  report a clear rise in luxury watch-related claims, which reflects the high incidence of theft affecting watch owners and jewellers today. Watches are expensive, portable, easy to steal, and highly liquid. The exceptional resale value of watches and high demand for the most desirable models on the secondary market are continuous drivers of theft.  

“It is more imperative than ever that insurers record the serial numbers for lost and stolen watch claims and report these losses to The Watch Register database to facilitate future detection. The database proactively searches the global pre-owned watch market, maximising the chances of recovery for insurers and their policy holders, and enabling insurers to recoup funds paid out on claims.”

In 2025 The Watch Register reached a landmark 5,000 lost and stolen watches identified since the service was founded more than a decade ago.  In the past year alone, stolen watches identified by The Watch Register have been traced across 34 countries spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia, North Africa, Australia and the Middle East, underlining both the global scale of the problem and the reach of the platform.

FUJIFILM India Opens First Revoria Experience Center, Launches AI-Driven Revoria Press PC2120

Faridabad, June 10 :  FUJIFILM India announces the opening of a new facility, the “Revoria Experience Center”, in Faridabad, Delhi-NCR area of India on June 10. This center will serve as a strategic hub for validating high-value printing using the “Revoria Press” series production printers and for developing skilled personnel. The facility aims to support the rapidly growing printing market in India by conducting output validation for a wide range of papers and specialty toners to achieve high-value-added printing, as well as providing training and development programs for operators and designers. Through these efforts, the center will contribute to expanding business opportunities and improving productivity for printing industry customers.

At the Experience Centre launch, FUJIFILM India also unveiled its latest Revoria Press PC2120, the flagship model in the Revoria Press series for high-end professional printing. The system builds on the strengths of its predecessor with advanced AI-driven automation, including intelligent pre-press optimization and real-time print monitoring. It also features an expanded color gamut with a newly developed green toner alongside pink, enabling stable one-pass six-color printing and more vivid, RGB-like color reproduction. The expanded specialty toner range enhances creative flexibility and supports a wide spectrum of high-quality, value-added commercial print applications.

Emphasizing Fujifilm’s focus on supporting India’s growing digital print ecosystem, Mr. Hiroshi Kida, Corporate Vice President and Director General Manager, Graphic Communication Division, said,

“India is one of the most dynamic and promising markets for digital printing, driven by growing demand for high-quality, customized, and value-added print applications. The Revoria Experience Center has been established to support this growth by enabling customers to experience Fujifilm’s latest production print technologies, expand paper compatibility, and unlock new possibilities in specialty color and premium printing. We believe this center will play an important role in strengthening customer capabilities and contributing to the sustainable growth of India’s printing industry.”

In India, economic growth and an increasing labor force are driving a rapid expansion of the middle class with enhanced purchasing power. This has led to a shift in consumer and business activities from a focus on price to an emphasis on quality and added value. Against this backdrop, the commercial printing market in India is experiencing growing demand for printed materials that prioritize design, high print quality, and added value over low-cost printing. This trend is expected to continue, resulting in strong market growth.

In response to these changing market conditions, printing businesses serving the commercial printing sector are required to meet increasingly diverse customer needs. In particular, the digital quick printing sector that handle a wide variety of printed materials from both individuals and companies need to strengthen their ability to work with diverse types of papers, including specialty papers. Moreover, in the photobook printing sector, there is a strong focus on meeting demand for high-value-added printing that involves high-quality finishing and decoration.

FUJIFILM Business Innovation has supported printing industry customers in achieving high-quality, high-value-added printing through the provision of the “Revoria Press” series production printers. Our technologies, including specialty toners in green and pink that enable wide color gamut printing, and gold and silver toners with high glossiness, as well as the capability to handle specialty papers such as embossed paper and films, have received high acclaim in areas that demand visual expression, including promotional materials and photobooks.

Celebrating the launch, Mr. Koji Wada, Managing Director, FUJIFILM India, said,

 “At FUJIFILM India, we are committed to delivering innovative products and solutions that embody our Group purpose of ‘Giving our world more smiles. The opening of the Revoria Experience Center in Faridabad along with launch of the Revoria Press PC2120, featuring advanced AI-driven automation while simplifying complex work, is a significant step in this direction, as it brings advanced digital printing technologies closer to customers in India. Through this facility, we aim to help print businesses explore new applications, validate diverse media, enhance print quality, and create greater value for the end customers.”

The newly opened “Revoria Experience Center” is named after the globally proven “Revoria Press” brand. This facility is aimed at enabling printing industry customers to experience our products and technologies firsthand, leverage them for proposing high-value-added printing solutions, and improve productivity through the following functions.

• Experience and evaluate the latest production printer technologies:The facility is equipped with actual production printers, including the “Revoria Press” series, allowing customers to experience and evaluate the machines firsthand. The specialized staff supports output validation and practical proposals for a wide range of printed materials such as promotional items, packaging, and photobooks, utilizing specialty papers and toners.

• Operator training to support print quality and productivity improvement:Training programs are provided to enhance operator skills for stabilizing print quality and improve equipment utilization.

• Designer development to strengthen proposal capabilities:To enhance proposal skills for clients ordering printed materials, designer development programs are offered to deepen designers’ expressive abilities and understanding of printing technology from a design perspective.

• Hands-on experience of photobook printing:To expand opportunities for photobook printing, the facility provides a hands-on photobook printing experience using production printers, making it accessible even to those without special knowledge or advanced skills.

Commenting on the launch of the new experience center, Mr. Priyatosh Kumar, Associate Director and Head of Graphic Communications & Device Technology, FUJIFILM India said

“As the digital penetration continues to increase in India it becomes critical to help enable local media suppliers and work for their product compatibility on digital machines. It also would serve as a training ground for operator related trainings and knowledge sharing. This experience center is an effort in that regard. It acknowledges the need to have a local platform to enable expansion of digital printing applications in India. Today also marks the commercial launch of the new powerhouse flagship product, Revoria Press 2120. Built as an upgrade to the hugely successful model of Revoria Press PC1120, the new Revoria Press PC2120 introduces advance AI-driven automation, an expanded color gamut featuring a newly developed green toner, and stable one-pass six-color printing using CMYK plus seven specialty toners options.”

FUJIFILM Group will leverage this facility as a base to meet the diverse printing demands of the Indian market and strive to create new demand moving forward.

Facility Overview

• Facility Name: Revoria Experience Center

• Opening Date: June 10, 2026

• Location: Faridabad, Delhi-NCR, India

• Installed Equipment: Revoria Press PC2120, Revoria Press EC2100S, Revoria Press SC285S, ApeosPro C810 / C650

The services and product names mentioned in this press release are registered trademarks or trademarks of FUJIFILM Corporation and FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.

Leadership ‘Behavioural Gap’ Stalling Global AI Adoption, Major Study Finds

June 10: A significant disconnect between executive ambition and organisational reality is stalling the integration of artificial intelligence across the world’s leading companies.  This is according to a new study by leadership consultancy The Positive Group –  conducted in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Business School, RSGI, and Hubel Labs – which states the primary obstacle to a successful AI strategy is not the limitations of technology, but a deficit in critical leadership behaviours at board and C-suite levels.

The report AI Success: The Leadership Factor,  is based on an in-depth qualitative study of 35 senior leaders from global giants including HSFKramer, ServiceNow, McDonald’s and Grant Thornton, spanning professional services, financial services, consumer brands, tech, and life sciences. The findings reveal a stark “AI Ambition-Maturity Gap”: while 86% of leaders interviewed aim for advanced AI maturity within the next 12–24 months, only 28% have successfully embedded AI into core workflows to deliver measurable value at scale.

The research identified three specific day-to-day areas to address.

1.The Role Model Gap 
Only 33% of executives who took part in the study see their leaders demonstrate adaptability, highlighting a huge disconnect between “talking” and “doing.”  Leaders need to move beyond theory and actively use AI tools in their daily workflows. Showing vulnerability by experimenting and failing in front of the team builds the psychological safety needed for others to innovate.

2.The Communication Gap
While 65% of the study respondents believe their leadership team can tell a motivating story for AI use, only 45% said they keep their teams regularly informed about actual AI developments. Leaders need to close the 20-point gap between general motivation and consistent, practical updates.

3.The Training Disconnect
Just 62% of the study respondent believe their leaders encourage employees to take ownership of AI innovation.  The fact this number is not higher could be linked to inadequate AI training programmes. Only six out of ten (59%) of those who took part in the study said their organisations have structured AI training in place for all, 28% said it was for senior leaders or specific teams only; 10% said training was managed on a case-by-case basis, and 4% said training was not prioritised at all.

The Human Barrier to Technical Progress
The study suggests that the technical AI hurdle is being cleared far more quickly than the human one. The study identifies four recurring behavioural barriers that are currently outpacing traditional corporate planning cycles:

1.Continuous Disruption: AI capabilities evolve so rapidly that they render standard strategic cycles obsolete, leading to executive fatigue and short-termism.
2.Fragmented Expectations: A lack of shared meaning regarding AI’s purpose leads to a proliferation of “hype-driven” pilots without consistent criteria for success.
3.Emotional Polarisation: AI unsettles established expertise hierarchies, creating a divide between enthusiasm and deep-seated anxiety regarding professional identity and relevance.
4.The Innovation-Risk Tension: In regulated environments, the absence of clear leadership on trade-offs leads to either paralysing caution or unstructured, risky experimentation.

The Data on Leadership Influence
The study provides a rare quantitative link between leadership culture and technical maturity. Leaders in “high-maturity” organizations – those successfully scaling AI -rated their management teams significantly higher across three key behavioural metrics compared to those in the pilot stages.  They reported:

40% higher adaptability-related behaviours
30% higher clarity-related behaviours
25% higher trust-related behaviours 

Will Marien, CEO of The Positive Group, emphasizes that the “Next Chapter” of the AI revolution will be written by people, not code. 

“Over the past few years, organisations have explored artificial intelligence through pilots and experimentation. Today, we are moving beyond exploration to the pressing challenge of maximising value from these technologies,” says Marien. “That shift raises the question: what does effective leadership look like in the AI era? Real value emerges when AI is paired with judgement, meaning and shared understanding. It is leadership that will determine how powerfully that partnership performs.”

A New Framework for the C-Suite
The report argues that the most successful organisations are moving away from treating AI as a “tech project” and are instead adopting three specific leadership modes:

Sensemaking and storytelling: The ability to translate complex AI concepts into plain language and define what “good” looks like for the specific business context “Storytelling and simplicity are powerful drivers of adoption. 

“We need to explain AI in plain language, simple enough that even my six-year-old could understand it, because accessibility builds curiosity and trust.” – Tarv Nijjar, Global Head of Product & Platform Transformation, McDonalds, who took part in Positive Group’s study.  

Mediation and trust: Building trust by making uncertainty visible and acknowledging the legitimate emotional responses of a workforce facing disrupted roles. 

Perry Burton, Head of Partner Learning and Development, Grant Thornton UK, who took part in the study, said: “In partnerships, you can’t simply tell people what to do. Change has to come through influence and example. That’s challenging when people are moving fast, feel pressure to deliver, and are understandably anxious about how their roles might evolve.”

 Adaptive Execution: Reframing experimentation as structured learning, where leaders model the use of tools themselves and provide explicit permission to “stop” initiatives that do not align with strategy. 

“Successful AI leadership requires both strategy and courage. There’s enormous pressure to chase every trend, but the real discipline lies in holding to a clear strategy and resisting the temptation to be reactive.” – Isabel Parker, White & Case, Chief Innovation Officer, who took part in the study. 

As global markets face a fast-moving regulatory environment and shifting expertise hierarchies, The Positive Group’s research suggests that the highest-leverage move an executive team can make is not increasing their R&D budget, but strengthening the behavioural capabilities of their leaders.

“The gap is not primarily technical, but behavioural,” the report concludes.

Marien adds: “Strengthening these capabilities may be the highest-leverage move organisations can make as AI reshapes how work is done.”