Watch, Jewellery & Luxury Goods Care

Independent study. xplor is not an accredited training provider and awards no certificate.

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LUX-CARE-1 · The Objects and the Risk

3 lessons

LUX-CARE-1.1 What Comes Aboard Practice in examiner →

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Fine Watches: What You Are Actually Holding

Introduces the three watch movement types, strap and case materials with their specific hazards, and what water-resistance markings genuinely mean. Establishes the core limit: identify and protect, never adjust or clean.

LUX-CARE-1.1.2

Jewellery, Bags and the Rest of the Guest Kit

Covers the guest inventory: gold karats, platinum and silver, the main gemstones and pearls, costume and vintage pieces, handbags and exotic skins, and the smaller items that go missing most often.

LUX-CARE-1.2 Value, Insurance and Trust Practice in examiner →

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Value, Insurance and Why the Real Risk Is Suspicion

Explains why the true occupational risk with guest valuables is suspicion rather than damage, and why documentation, photographs, witnesses and receipts are the only real protection a crew member has.

LUX-CARE-2 · Care and Handling: Technique and Its Limits

4 lessons

LUX-CARE-2.1 Watches: Handling and Its Limits Practice in examiner →

LUX-CARE-2.1.1

Never Wind, Never Set, Never Open

The absolute rule against winding, setting, adjusting or opening a guest watch, why date mechanisms and screw-down crowns are so easily damaged, correct use of winders, and the risk of magnetism.

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Water, Salt, Sunscreen and Magnetism

How salt, chlorine and sunscreen actually damage watches and metals, what a screw-down crown does, and the correct time-critical response when a watch has been in the sea.

LUX-CARE-2.2 Jewellery, Leather and the Three Destroyers Practice in examiner →

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Jewellery: Gentle Cleaning, Hard Rules and Fragile Stones

The narrow limits of permitted jewellery cleaning, the absolute prohibitions (ultrasonic, steam, ammonia, solvents, abrasives), gemstone hardness and the fragile stones, and how to report a loose setting.

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Handbags, Leather Goods and Exotic Skins

How handbags and leather goods are actually destroyed on yachts (mould, UV, deformation, chemicals), the extra fragility and CITES implications of exotic skins, and why leather conditioners are off limits.

LUX-CARE-3 · Process, Security and Trust

4 lessons

LUX-CARE-3.1 Custody, Safes and Documentation Practice in examiner →

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Safes, Inventory and the Receipt You Always Write

The role of guest and ship safes, and the five-step custody routine — write, photograph, witness, receipt, hand over — that must be followed every time a crew member takes a valuable, including noting pre-existing damage.

LUX-CARE-3.1.2

Found Property and the Cabin Turnaround

Found-property protocol — never pocket an item, hand it over immediately in front of a witness and log it — and the rules for guest jewellery encountered during cabin turnaround.

LUX-CARE-3.2 When Something Goes Wrong Practice in examiner →

LUX-CARE-3.2.1

Something Is Missing: The Hours That Follow

What actually happens when a valuable goes missing on board, how a crew member should respond, the things that must never be done, and why contemporaneous records are the only real defence against accusation.

LUX-CARE-3.2.2

Departure Checks, Lost Property and Confidentiality

How to run a guest departure sweep, the lost-property chain for items left behind (including customs and CITES implications of shipping), and the confidentiality expected around guest possessions.

Aligned to the IAMI GUEST Program framework. Preparatory study only — assessment and certification are carried out by an approved GUEST Training Provider. Official source (GUEST Program).

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