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THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
T2 WORKSHOP - ASSEMBLY
The assembly workshop at Frederique Constant, or T2, is dedicated
to all the operations necessary for the encasing of the watch. Our
watchmakers carefully handle all the different parts that constitute
the watch: the Movement , the case, the dial and the hands. Every
Frederique Constant watch is assembled by hand.
The cleanliness of this workshop is extremely important, in order
to prevent any foreign matter to penetrate into the movements
and constricting the smooth functioning of our watches.
T3 WORKSHOP - QUALITY CONTROL
All Frederique Constant timepieces - equipped with quartz as well
as mechanical movements - are submitted to a very extensive
series of tests. Each watch will be tested to ensure optimum per
formance, a further step in which our control lers re-test all the
functions of the watch: jump the date, time settings, winding (if
the watch is mechanical) and so on. Mechanical watches with
automatic winding system undergo another series of tests that
will differ depending on the complexity of the Movement: rate and
amplitude tests, and the power reserve’s resistance. But if one of
these tests does not meet our qual ity standards, the watch will
return to the production cycle until it reaches a perfect accuracy.
T1 WORKSHOP - MOVEMENTS
Commonly cal led T1 internally at Frederique Constant, this
Manufacture’s workshop is highly technical, as it is dedicated to
the production of our in-house movements. Our watchmakers
and Master watchmakers under take long and fastidious work, for
which patience, experience and know-how is required.
They handle delicate and fragile components and have to be
very precise with every gesture. Some Frederique Constant
movements are made up from more than a hundred components.
They assemble, adjust and control all our mechanical movements
to make sure everything functions properly. Mainly all assembly
operations and settings are made by hand, to ensure our watches
are provided with the highest quality: jewelling, oiling, balancing
the pendulum, just to name a few.
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