It’s hard now, 12 years down the line, to remember that retail, particularly jewellery and watches, looked very different. Most stores were family concerns, places where you would go to buy the jewellery and silverware to mark life’s milestones – a christening, 18th birthday gift, engagement then wedding ring, something for Aunt Vi’s silver wedding anniversary. It was nice, pleasant, but there was no pizazz. Kyron and Grant, who set up ROX together in 2002 when Grant was looking for a partner for his new store in the Argyll Arcade and Kyron wanted to move to Scotland for love, had already foreseen the boom in well-made fashion jewellery and watches. But after eight years, they wanted take things up a notch both in terms of their stock and their stores.
