What Shopify theme does Daniel Wellington use?
Daniel Wellington is running T3 Pre-Summer on Shopify 2.0. We identified it from inline window.Shopify.theme JSON plus signature-matched CSS class prefixes.
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Live result · refreshed 2026-05-29
About Daniel Wellington
Founded 2011 · SE
Filip Tysander founded Daniel Wellington in Sweden after a chance encounter with a man wearing an old Rolex on a NATO strap. The brand grew from $15K to a reported $220M revenue in five years almost entirely through influencer marketing — sending watches + discount codes to hundreds of thousands of Instagram creators. The DW playbook directly created the modern micro-influencer industry.
Public scale markers
Disclosed in filings, acquisitions or named press reporting — not estimates.
- 01~$220M revenue peak (2015)
- 02Bootstrapped — no external funding
- 03Hundreds of thousands of micro-influencer partnerships
- 04Founded with $15K initial capital
Notable for the theme detector
Daniel Wellington is the original influencer-marketing-attribution case — the discount-code system + UTM tracking infrastructure they built is now industry standard. The storefront reflects that attribution-heavy DNA.
Theme identity
- Theme name
- T3 Pre-Summer
- Theme ID
- 188455780676
Shopify 2.0 readiness
Online Store 2.0
Yes
Sections rendered
17
Theme app extensions
0
Customisation + performance
How heavily Daniel Wellington's storefront has been modified on top of the base theme.
Inline scripts
51
HTML size
525 KB
TTFB
276 ms
CMP
Cookiebot
What this theme + customisation reveals
Daniel Wellington's storefront declares "T3 Pre-Summer" via window.Shopify.theme JSON but the underlying CSS signatures don't match a commercial theme we track. That pattern is consistent with either (a) a fully-custom in-house theme that the team named after a project codename, or (b) a heavily-forked commercial theme where the original class prefixes have been stripped during customisation. Either way, the build effort here is meaningful.
The 17-section homepage is dense — most stores use 6-10 sections. Heavy section count usually means a content-led merchandising strategy. 51 inline scripts on the homepage suggests app-embed bloat — common in stacks that grew app-by-app over years. 276ms TTFB is fast — Shopify Plus + deliberate cache warming is doing its job.
Cross-check with the App Stack Detector to see how the apps installed interact with the theme — heavily-customised themes typically run thinner app stacks because custom code replaces app functionality.
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