MANAGER
ALTIER JEWELERS
When it opened more than 65 years ago, Altier Jewelers, Boca Raton’s first local jewelry store, featured a woman partnering with her husband behind the counter. For the past 20 years, men have managed the shop. In late 2024, the third-generation Altier family brought a refreshed female energy back to the store, hiring Kelly Yoch as its manager. A fixture in the luxury watch scene of greater New York for more than 25 years, Yoch one day decided she’d experienced her last Northeast winter. She found a management job at the Boca institution waiting for her—just as Altier had purchased a building across from its current location, where it will expand its offerings by the fourth quarter of this year.
“The most shocking thing for our clients is that they’ve walked in and seen a woman,” Yoch says. “The female touch I’ve given to the sales floor has made a bit of a difference. Women shoppers feel a little more comfortable.”
Arriving from the ultra-high-end New York market, Yoch considers it a “joy” to manage a store that casts a wider economic net here in Boca. “We take care of basically everyone in our community,” she says. While Altier carries luxury watches from Patek Philippe, Cartier and Montblanc, “nothing is too small. A repair, a watch battery or a $200,000 diamond— everyone is treated the same way.” And at Altier, clients are more than customers. “They become part of the family,” she says. “This isn’t a 9-to-5 job. I always have my communication lines open to service our clients in every way they need.”
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This post is part of the Best of Women in Business section from the March 2026 issue of Boca magazine. For more like this, click here to subscribe.
