Since 1983, Downing Editorial has provided editorial services to professional, business and public-service publishers.

1983-1986    U.N. correspondent. Copy editor, Automobile Year, Car Collector’s Yearbook. Produce Europa Management Report (Digital Equipment Corporation). Write 17 Berlitz travel guides. Translate three books for Edita publications. Write brochures, reports and newsletters for international organisations (ITU, UICC, UNHCR, UNICEF, WWF).

1986-1996    Successful campaigns for an advertising agency bring a large number of clients in advertising, financial services and industry. Write annual reports, investment bulletins and product documentation for publications for corporations, international organisations, banks, medical and scientific institutions. Produce museum catalogues and an arts magazine for an auctioneer. Editorial analysis and strategy for World Economic Forum (World Link magazine). Advertising campaigns for Patek Philippe, Swarovski, Republic National Bank, Jaeger-LeCoultre and other companies. Sole writer for Patek Philippe from 1986 to 1997. Consultant to Breguet watches: manufacturing audit and feasibility study on custom-made watches. Writer and translator for a dozen other luxury-watch companies. Translate four books, write one.

From 1996     Specialise increasingly in the watch industry, providing website content, marketing communications and translation. Publish more than 180 articles, mostly watch-related. Launch and edit a financial magazine (Quality Banking). Expedition to the Mozambique Channel islands (National Geographic project). Moderator of a web forum on independent watchmakers. Assessment of manuscripts and editorial assistance to authors. Documentary on the Franco-Mauritians in the WWII Special Operations Executive.

Publications In addition to countless news stories and watch articles, published features cover a wide range: art, finance, science, politics, manufacturing, travel, leisure, humour.