- Employment
- Contract
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Industry
- Fine Watches & Horology
- Posted
- Jul 12, 2026
About Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Constantin, founded in Geneva in 1755, is one of the world’s oldest continuously operating watch manufactures and a benchmark of Swiss haute horlogerie. As an employer, the Maison offers a culture shaped by craftsmanship, precision, transmission of knowledge, and enduring innovation. Its teams contribute to exceptional timepieces that unite artistic mastery, technical complexity, and timeless elegance. Within an international environment supported by the Richemont Group, Vacheron Constantin values excellence, collaboration, diversity, and long-term development, offering opportunities across watchmaking, design, heritage, retail, client experience, and corporate functions. Employees are invited to uphold a rare legacy while helping define the future of fine watchmaking.
Richemont, a global leader in luxury, seeks an International Client Service Watchmaker to join the Service Client department within Operations. The role encompasses the maintenance and restoration of timepieces within the Client Service Workshop, ensuring compliance with Vacheron Constantin's quality standards and prescribed timelines. The watchmaker will perform component diagnostics, disassembly, cleaning, replacement of defective parts, assembly, regulation, and case assembly, while maintaining self-control standards and contributing proactively to workshop performance improvement. This fixed-term contract is positioned as a springboard within the Maison, offering performing candidates potential pathways to boutique watchmaker opportunities internationally based on network requirements.
Role & Responsibilities
- Perform maintenance and restoration of watches within the Client Service Workshop to ensure product return in conformity with Vacheron Constantin quality criteria and assigned timelines
- Execute diagnostic assessments of components and coordinate preparation and quality control of outsourced work
- Perform disassembly and cleaning of timepiece components
- Replace defective or worn parts with precision and care
- Conduct assembly, regulation, and case assembly operations on completed movements
- Work with self-control standards and maintain quality assurance protocols throughout all processes
- Proactively identify opportunities for workshop environment improvement and operational performance optimization
Qualifications
- Complete professional experience as a watchmaker, ideally initiated through apprenticeship and supplemented by several years of field experience
- Proficiency with office software and digital tools
- Fluent French language skills with preferably strong English proficiency
- Strong organizational sense, efficiency, autonomy, and proactive approach
- Transparency and collaborative team orientation
- Interest in potential international career development
Skills
Experience
Complete professional experience as a watchmaker, ideally commenced through formal apprenticeship and extended by multiple years of practical experience in watch service, maintenance, and restoration within a luxury horology environment.
Education
Watchmaking apprenticeship or equivalent formal horological training; completion of post-apprenticeship professional development in watch service and repair is expected.
Workplace
This position is based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland, within easy reach of Geneva.
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Culture
Vacheron Constantin fosters a workplace culture rooted in exceptional craftsmanship, heritage, and the continuous pursuit of horological excellence. As an employer, it values precision, transmission of expertise, and collaboration, offering an environment where employees contribute to a living legacy while advancing innovation in fine watchmaking.
About Cerulean
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