Spanish watch retail mixes a jewellery house known for a bear with a serious watch group and a pen-and-watch specialist. Tous builds playful luxury jewelry as a Spanish house founded in 1920 in Manresa and known for the bear. Iguana Sell offers hands-on testing of luxury fountain pens and watches side by side in Madrid. Festina runs a Spanish watch group from classic three-hand pieces to diver 200m chronographs. Try the watch on before reading the specifications; the case has to sit on your own wrist rather than in a photograph.
Founded in Barcelona in 2004, Papabubble hand-pulls customizable rock candy and caramels in an open workshop-store. Customers watch the sweets being made in the Gothic Quarter.
Spanish jewelry house founded in 1920 in Manresa, near Barcelona, as a watch-repair shop by Salvador Tous Blavi and Teresa Ponsa Mas; the teddy-bear pendant, created in 1985 by Rosa Oriol, became its signature motif.
Best for Playful luxury jewelry. Spanish jewelry brand known for the bear
TOUS began in 1920 as a small watch-repair shop in Manresa, near Barcelona, founded by Salvador Tous Blavi and his wife Teresa Ponsa Mas. In 1965 their son, also named Salvador Tous, took over the business with his wife Rosa Oriol; the couple began designing and producing their own jewelry in 1970. In 1985, Rosa Oriol created the teddy-bear pendant that would become the brand's defining symbol. The founders' four daughters joined the business in the 1990s and now hold senior roles, keeping it family-run four generations on.
Iguana Sell is a Madrid boutique built around one specific idea: a shop where fountain pens and fine watches are treated as the same category of object, tested side by side rather than sold apart.
Best for Hands-on testing of luxury fountain pens and watches side
Iguana Sell is a Madrid boutique built around one specific idea: a shop where fountain pens and fine watches are treated as the same category of object, tested side by side rather than sold apart. The store, at Calle Fernando el Católico 77, has operated for more than fifteen years and carries over sixty official brands, with a pen wall running from Aurora, Nakaya, Namiki, Pelikan, Sailor, and Visconti through Caran d'Ache and Graf von Faber-Castell — a spread wide enough to compare a Japanese urushi pen against a German piston-filler in the same visit.
What distinguishes it from an online-only reseller is the physical shop itself: two large testing tables where customers try nibs and case a watch on the wrist before buying, staff who can talk through nib grinds and filling systems across a dozen manufacturers, and every item sold with its official warranty and original packaging — the boutique operates as an authorized dealer, not a gray-market importer.
The combination of pens and watches under one roof, with hands-on testing built into the shop layout rather than treated as an afterthought, is the real reason to seek it out over a pen-only retailer: it is a place built for people who already know they want to hold the object before deciding, and Madrid's pen community has used it as a meeting point for that reason for well over a decade.
Joyamar has sold gold, silver and watches from its shop at Rúa Benito Corbal 34 in central Pontevedra since the Alba Ezpeleta family opened it there in 1992, continuing a jewelry trade the family began in Venezuela in 1975. Now run by the second generation, the shop pairs its storefront with an online collection of watches from brands like Casio, Nixon and TOUS.
Best for Gold, silver, and watches from brands like Casio, Nixon, and TOUS
Tula’s Baiona counter carries jewellery, watches and costume pieces selected from established manufacturers. The business page emphasises crafted articles, but it does not clearly document repairs, bespoke work or an in-house workshop.
Spanish sunglasses and watches brand — contemporary styles with sustainability focus. Polarized UVA/B protection and Japanese quartz movements. Festival-ready and island-getaway approved.
Best for Sustainable sunglasses and contemporary watches