TZ Tour Visits Girard-Perregaux page 2

2006 TimeZone Tour

Day 3 - Visit to Girard-Perregaux

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Here we see watchmakers at work in the parts finishing area.

Perlage being applied to a movement plate.

Here Mr. Ourny explains the many steps involved in finishing movement parts once they have been produced. The quality of the GP parts, and the attention to detail in the finishing, were readily apparent here.

Here a watchmaker finishes a winding rotor

This is also the point at which parts and cases are inspected.

...and then it was time to move to pre-assembly and assembly .

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