The factory used the energy of the Arve river to make the machines move. You can still see remains of the former hydroelectric installation.
Visit possible as part of the visit of the Museum of Clock-making and Screw-cutting.
- Historic site and monument
Espace Carpano et Pons
The building which contains now the Clock-making and Screw-cutting Museum and City Archives is a former clock-making factory created in the XIXth century and refurbished in 1993.
About
Prices
Free access.
Reception
Opening
All year round, daily.
Open during the opening hours and days of the Clock-making and Screw-cutting Museum and the tourist office.
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Services
- Pets welcome
- Shop
- Wi-fi
- Tourist brochures
- Parking
Contacts
Access
- Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs
- Even flooring with no obstacles
- Absence of protrusions > 2 cm
- Minimum aisle width of 90 cm
- Doors >=77 cm wide
- Lift (80 x 130 cm) and door >= 77 cm
- Reception desk between 70-80 cm high
- Height under table >= 70 cm width >= 77 cm
- WC + grab handle + adequate space to move
- Site, building totally accessible
- Visual alarm with flash light
- Magnetic loop available at the reception
- Presence of pictograms and / or simplified visuals
- Relief map, tactile model or audio device description available at the reception
- Reception staff sensitized to the reception of people with disabilities
