Alco
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Swiss watch components manufacturer
Alco is listed in the official subcontractor and supplier directory of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry. Its corporate website contains watch component manufacturing evidence.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Chavannes, Switzerland
- Founded
- 1823 (as stated by the company, not confirmed by a state register)
- Website
- https://alco.ch
- Categories
- Watches
- Markets
- Switzerland
Listed in a source registry
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 1 official record from 1 official source is on file. 2 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 1998. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-02. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active-by-name) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] A search of the GLEIF register by company name found an active identifier under this name. The match is by name only, so it may belong to another legal entity. checked 2026-07-21. GLEIF
- Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Indicates the company is not dissolved or winding down. checked 2026-09-07. SHAB, Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce
Import rules for these goods
- EU REACH restricts lead, cadmium and nickel in jewellery and in items with prolonged skin contact; non-compliant articles are stopped at the border. ECHA (REACH)
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