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Geneva watches

References in the Grail Atlas catalog made in Geneva.

Geneva is a city watchmaking tradition rather than an alpine one, the trade arrived in the 16th century with Huguenot refugees and was consolidated under Calvinist regulations that pushed the city's goldsmiths into horology. By the 19th century the Geneva manufacture had codified itself into the Poinçon de Genève and the Plan-les-Ouates industrial belt to the south of the lake, where Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Rolex, and the modern independents (F.P. Journe, MB&F, Laurent Ferrier, Akrivia) still concentrate. The Poinçon requires both movement and case finishing to be done within the canton, it is among the strictest geographic quality marks in the industry.

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