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Workshops & Classes — Geneva

7 stores · curated ORBIS register

Central Geneva / Online

Personalised machine embroidery applied in the Geneva workshop to garments, caps and accessories.

Best for Personalised embroidery service — watch creations come to life on t-shirts, hoodies, caps

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Deuxième Vie

Hidden Gem

Near Jet d'Eau / Online

The Geneva workshop also alters and repairs customers’ existing clothes, from torn seams to fit adjustments. Most upcycled bags begin as advertising banners from local cultural institutions, with occasional sailcloth entering the material stream.

Best for Tailoring and sewing workshop specializing in upcycling — durable eco-friendly products

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Geneva

Founded in 1996, Agenhor is an independent Geneva atelier that develops and builds movements and complications for houses including Hermès, Van Cleef & Arpels and H. Moser & Cie. It holds dozens of patents, among them the AgenGraphe chronograph and the AgenPit regulator, and works as a workshop rather than a retail shop.

Best for Movement and complication design (atelier, not retail)

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Geneva / SwitzerlandORBIS register

Geneva region (near Geneva)

The Favarger family has made chocolate since 1826, operating in the Geneva area under its Fait Maison promise. Its ranges include pralines, the Nougaline and the Favatufi truffles, sold in regional boutiques and through workshops.

Best for Heritage Swiss chocolate, pralines

⚒ Chocolatiers · SwitzerlandORBIS register

Geneva

rené rené is a Geneva leather workshop making handbags, backpacks and small leather goods entirely in the city from European hides sourced in Germany, Italy and France. Leathers are bought in small quantities, so colours and textures change once stock runs out, and bespoke commissions are offered.

Best for Made-in-Geneva leather bags, bespoke

⚒ Leather & Bag Makers · Geneva / SwitzerlandORBIS register

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