We are Secured by Design (SBD) accredited, recognised for meeting the UK’s highest police-approved security standards.

SECURED BY DESIGN

MISSION

At CRNO, our mission is to make ownership clear, theft harder, and recovery easier.

We exist to reduce watch crime by giving every watch a secure, verifiable digital identity, connecting owners, authenticators, insurers, retailers, and law enforcement through one trusted platform.

By improving transparency, strengthening provenance, and making stolen watches harder to trade, CRNO helps protect not just the financial value of a watch, but the memories, milestones, and stories behind it.

    • Faster recovery of stolen watches.

    • Disrupt organised watch crime networks.

    • Better evidence for prosecutions.

    • Reduced workload on manual checks.

WHAT CRNO GIVES

POLICE OFFICE

CRNO enables officers to identify luxury watches quickly and accurately in the field or during investigations by:

  • Searching serial numbers, reference numbers, and uploaded images

  • Matching photos against existing CRNO records

  • Accessing key watch details in seconds, even when paperwork is unavailable

This reduces reliance on specialist knowledge and speeds up early-stage enquiries.

  • CRNO provides a simple, clear status system to support fast decision-making:

    • ✅ Green – No adverse records found

    • ⚠️ Amber – Under review or requires further verification

    • ❗️Red – Reported stolen or linked to an active case

    This allows officers to instantly assess whether a watch is clean, suspect, or linked to known thefts.

  • CRNO connects watches to wider investigative data, helping officers build clearer cases by linking:

    • Jewellers, dealers, and points of sale

    • Victims and ownership records

    • Locations, incidents, and recovery points

    These links create a broader intelligence picture and reduce siloed information.

  • When a victim reports a stolen watch through the CRNO app, their crime report is securely recorded and supported by key evidential data.

    Each report includes:

    • Precise date and time of submission

    • Exact location captured at the point of reporting

    • Supporting images uploaded by the victim

    With the victim’s consent, authorised police users can view the report through the CRNO system, giving officers immediate access to structured, time-stamped, and location-verified information to support enquiries and investigations.

    CRNO is designed to complement existing police reporting processes by improving data quality, reducing friction for victims, and ensuring critical information is captured accurately from the outset.

OPERATIONAL

FLOW    

CRNO gives police a practical, intelligence-led tool to identify, track, and recover stolen watches, faster, clearer, and with greater confidence.

  • Street officers: quick checks via app/web.

  • Control rooms: monitor alerts and link to existing cases.

  • Economic crime units: data for more complex investigations.

SBD & POLICE COLLABORATION

  • “CRNO is Secured by Design accredited and developed in partnership with UK police forces.”

  • “We’re onboarding forces ahead of our launch with training and dedicated support.”

  • “It has been a pleasure to have CRNO join us as members of Secured by Design. They offer a unique product, a digital register for luxury watches, dedicated to preventing and combating watch crime & tackling watch thefts. I’m really looking forward to working alongside them for many more years to come.”

    Hazel Goss, SBD Development Officer

  • "Creative, reliable, and genuinely passionate about what they do."

    —Former Customer