WatchDec: high precision for medtech
A key player in the high-precision watchmaking sector for more than 12 years, WatchDec, inspired by the Acrotec Medtech division, is now making its expertise available to the medical sector. With a medtech-focused division and cutting-edge infrastructure, this Swiss company is supporting the most demanding medical innovations, ensuring precision to the nearest micron.
Watchmaking expertise used for medical applications
Based in Courgenay, the cradle of watchmaking in the heart of Switzerland’s Jura Arc, WatchDec is producing increasingly complex parts for its customers. An expert in the art of machining micro-components, WatchDec boasts modern facilities and 50 state-of-the-art machinery units, enabling the company to continually push back the micro-technical frontiers of part miniaturisation.
Strict compliance with medical requirements
This is a boon for the medical sector, which has thus made a beeline for WatchDec. “Having anticipated this demand, we’ve achieved all the standards and certification we need to operate in accordance with all the requirements in this extremely demanding sector,” says WatchDec COO Audrey Marmé. “Whether it was regulations, legal requirements or manufacturing, quality, traceability, documentation, customer audit, ISO 13485 certification or process validation standards, everything was done based on best practices!”
WatchDec manufactures medical-grade materials, selected for their biocompatibility and resistance to sterilisation, such as 1.4305 steel and other materials used in the medical sector. High-precision computer numerical control (CNC) machining processes involve stringent checks on the dimensioning of the parts, special finishing (passivation) and advanced metrological inspection.
Extreme precision for miniaturised components
For this purpose, WatchDec draws on a raft of specialist equipment which has been scrupulously qualified and which, thanks to its team of some 30 members of staff and the technological and commercial assistance of the Acrotec Medtech division, already produces large volumes for medical purposes each year. Among the machined medical parts that WatchDec supplies are micro-needles, with levels of precision ranging from 0.05 to 10 mm in diameter, depending on the relevant needs for large or small series.
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You can find WatchDec at stand G35 at EPHJ 2025!