Swiss Watch Movement Assembly
Early in Ronda’s life, all the company’s Swiss watch movements were assembled in Lausen near Basel. However, despite constant expansions of the site, by the early 1970s capacity could no longer keep pace with demand.
In view of this, Ronda turned its attention to Southern Switzerland. First the company entrusted part of its movement assembly business to an outside partner. A few years later a joint venture was established with the Reglatronic company. And in the 1990s this was in turn superseded by the foundation of a new site, Farone, in Stabio.
Creating a "Swiss Made" watch movement
All the components needed to manufacture Swiss watch movements are produced in their thousands by Ronda AG in Lausen and delivered to the Stabio operation. Here they are used by the firm’s skilled and experienced staff to produce quartz watch movements as well as mechanical movements from scratch on its own assembly lines.
Certified quality
All the assembled movements are systematically subjected to an AQL quality check. Some types of movement undergo temperature testing, too. Once they have passed all their various quality checks, the finished products are dispatched to Lausen head office. And from there these “Swiss Made” movements are shipped to watch manufacturers all over the world.
ATIO - attractive training opportunities
In view of the dynamic development of the watch industry in the Canton of Ticino, the Watch Industry Association of the Ticino ATIO was founded in December 2014. Farone is a founding member of this association.
Our joint aim is to create an attractive training centre for watchmakers, which will be managed by experienced staff. We hope to appeal not just to locally-based people, who are interested and would like to become qualified through a specially orientated further training programme, in order to take advantage of newly created job opportunities.
If you believe you are such a person, please apply directly to the ATIO.
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