{"id":35914,"date":"2025-06-08T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/lhorlogerie-dexcellence-eprise-de-grohripp\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:16:00","slug":"grohripp-loved-by-the-best-in-watchmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/grohripp-loved-by-the-best-in-watchmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Groh+Ripp: loved by the best in watchmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past 20 years, the watchmaking industry has invested a lot of energy in vertical integration. However, even today, it still depends on specialists in many cases, some of whom are based outside Switzerland. One such specialist is the family-owned company<\/b> Groh & Ripp<\/a> \u00e0 Idar-Oberstein<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Timm Delfs<\/a> <\/em>Loyal journalist <\/i>at<\/i> the Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie JSH
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Idar-Oberstein<\/b>, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Groh & Ripp<\/a> is one of the most renowned gemstone cutting companies. This family-run SME dates back to an agate cutting workshop founded in 1953 by Theo Groh in Rhaunen, about 20 km north of Idar-Oberstein. He had a daughter, Stefanie, who married Bernd Willi Ripp. The latter joined his father-in-law’s company in 1973.<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of Stefanie and Bernd Willi Ripp, the company relocated to Idar-Oberstein in 1985. With around 50 employees, including Sandra since 1996 and Nicole since 2003, the founder’s granddaughters, and now with the recent arrival of Richard Brunk, Sandra Ripp’s son, the company is already on the verge of entering its fourth generation…<\/p>\n

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Sandra Ripp: Our House is built on treasures that can no longer be bought anywhere because the deposits are often exhausted<\/em>\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sandra Ripp: \u2018We deliver what we call semi-finished products. These can be stone bases with or without holes. The finishing of the dials with decals, apliques, etc. is done by our customers, the dial manufacturers. Our production includes dials, but also gemstone components such as pushers, cases, etc.\u2019<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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Timm Delfs: \u201cStones and expertise\u201d<\/h2>

This independent and specialized journalist, fluent in English and German, was born and lives in Basel. He spreads the good word about watchmaking in the institutional publications NZZ am Sonntag, NZZ, Bilanz, Armbanduhren, Horological Journal, and Journal suisse d'horlogerie JSH, with which he has been collaborating since the 1990s. A former English and Italian teacher, he is also published in the Basler Zeitung and in the private magazines of Beyer in Zurich and Huber in Vaduz.
\nFor the 2024-2025 (winter-spring) edition of JSH, Timm Delfs went to meet Groh+Ripp, a family business loyal to the Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie JSH and Swiss watch brands: \u201cToday, Idar-Oberstein is the only place in the world where all existing precious stones are cut and sold,\u201d he explains.
\nRead his article \u201cThe art of watchmaking excellence\u201d about Groh+Ripp, published in the JSH edition at the end of 2025-spring 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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