Manufacturing companies based in Geneva

ZANUTI INC. is a mechanical watchmaking company established in 1887 by Albert Favre Zanuti, currently headquartered in Tokyo (Japan) and with regional offices in Europe and the US.

Le Petit-Fils de L.-U. Chopard & Cie S.A., commonly known as Chopard , is a Swiss manufacturer and retailer of luxury watches, jewellery and accessories. Founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in Sonvilier, Switzerland, Chopard has been owned by the Scheufele family of Germany since 1963.

Jean Lassale was a Swiss watch company that designed the Calibre 1200, featuring the thinnest mechanical watch movement: 1.2 mm. In the 1970s, Pierre Mathys, master watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, designed and built the prototype of a revolutionary watch caliber, with the goal of making the thinnest watch in the world. To achieve this feat, Mathys based his design on the work of Robert Annen, who previously had the idea of using ball bearings in small scale horology. Mathys decided to remove the bridges and counter-pivot, and instead use ball bearings for the axis.

Dufaux was a Swiss car manufacturer established in Geneva in 1904 by Charles and Frédéric Dufaux.

Serono was a biotechnology company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It was acquired by the German pharmaceutical company Merck in 2006. The company was founded as the Serono Pharmacological Institute by Cesare Serono in 1906 in Rome, Italy. A key step in its development was the discovery of a method of extracting urinary gonadotropins by Dr. Piero Donini. Serono was incorporated in 1987 and the holding company, Ares-Serono S.A., changed its name to Serono S.A. in May 2000.

Firmenich SA was a Swiss company in the fragrance and flavor business. The company has created perfumes for over 125 years and produced a number of well-known flavors. Founded in 1895, it merged in May 2023 with the Dutch company DSM to form dsm-firmenich.

F.P. Journe is a high-end watch manufacture of Switzerland named after the founder François-Paul Journe. (French watchmaker who was born in Marseille in 1959. An unruly child, he was sent to a local technical college at the age of 14. He went on to graduate from the Paris watchmaking school in 1976).

Purnell is a Swiss watch manufacturer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered on Rue du Rhône 80 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Raymond Weil Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1976 in Geneva by Raymond Weil and Simone Bédat. Simone Bedat and her son left the company in 1996 to form Bedat & Co.

GoldVish is a Swiss manufacturer of premium luxury mobile phones and watches. The company is specialized in combining high-end technology and Swiss craftsmanship.