Buy Gold · Zurich
Buy investment-grade gold in Zurich.
OnePiece connects Swiss institutional buyers and refineries with 10 kilograms of export-ready African gold, priced at USD 5,000 below the LBMA PM Fix per kilogram. Bank escrow settlement. Carrier delivery to Zurich or Geneva. Full independent assay and export documentation.
Zurich's gold market
Switzerland occupies a position in the global gold supply chain that is simply without parallel. The country is home to the world's largest gold refineries — MKS PAMP in Castel San Pietro, Argor-Heraeus in Mendrisio, Metalor Technologies in Marin-Epagnier, and Valcambi in Balerna — and together these four facilities process approximately 70% of the world's gold. Every major gold-producing region supplies material to Swiss refineries; Switzerland is where raw and semi-refined gold becomes the LBMA Good Delivery bar that the international market trades.
Zurich is the commercial centre of this infrastructure. The Swiss National Bank holds its gold reserves partly in Zurich. The Zurich Free Ports — located adjacent to Kloten Airport — provide zero-duty, high-security storage for physical gold, with capacity for billions of dollars of bullion. For buyers who wish to take delivery into a free port and defer any tax decision, Zurich is the optimal destination globally.
Swiss private banks have the deepest gold custody infrastructure of any banking system in the world. UBS, Julius Baer, Pictet, and Lombard Odier all offer allocated gold custody as a standard private banking service, with holdings that can be verified by physical inspection. The depth and maturity of this infrastructure makes Switzerland the most natural destination for large-scale physical gold acquisitions.
African raw material for Swiss refineries
Swiss refineries are the logical destination for pre-refined African gold — and they know it. The business model of an LBMA-accredited refinery is to acquire gold that has not yet passed through the LBMA Good Delivery certification process, process it into standard bars, and sell those bars at spot or above. The margin is the spread between the input price and the output price — precisely the USD 5,000/kg below spot that our mandate represents.
African gold that is assayed, documented, and legally exportable but not yet LBMA-refined is ideal feed material for Swiss refinery operations. MKS PAMP and Argor-Heraeus both have established sourcing relationships with African producers and the compliance infrastructure to process African-origin gold. Our offering at USD 5,000/kg below spot is priced to work for a refinery buyer: the processing margin at Swiss labour and energy costs leaves meaningful commercial upside.
For Swiss buyers who are not refineries — family offices, commodity traders, private banks acting for clients — the same logic applies at the investment level. Acquiring gold at USD 5,000/kg below the LBMA Fix and arranging processing through an accredited refinery captures the processing margin as an investment return. This is a well-understood trade in the Swiss market.
Current mandate
Metal
Gold (Au)
Quantity
10 kilograms
Form
Bar / bullion
Purity
Investment-grade — independent assay
Origin
Africa — export documentation complete
Price
USD 5,000/kg below LBMA PM Fix
Settlement
Bank escrow · Letter of Credit
Delivery
Specialist carrier to Zurich or Geneva
Swiss import duty
Zero (investment gold)
Timeline
10 business days from signed agreement
Other Swiss buyers
Beyond the refinery sector, the Swiss institutional buyer base for documented below-spot gold is broad. Geneva and Zurich family offices — many of them managing intergenerational wealth for European, Middle Eastern, and African families — allocate to physical gold as a core reserve asset. The Swiss private banking culture has always treated physical gold as a fundamental component of wealth preservation; it is not an alternative asset class in Switzerland, it is the baseline.
Private banks including Julius Baer, Pictet, and Lombard Odier facilitate physical gold purchases for clients and hold custody on their behalf. For a private bank client seeking to add to a physical gold position at below-market cost, our mandate offers a direct path: bank escrow settlement, carrier delivery to the client's designated vault or the bank's own custody facility, and full documentation for the client's records.
Switzerland's commodity trading infrastructure — centred in Geneva and Zug — includes some of the largest physical commodity traders in the world. Glencore, Trafigura, and Vitol all maintain Geneva trading operations. While their primary focus is in base metals and energy, their precious metals desks are active buyers of physical gold where pricing and documentation meet their requirements. Zug-based investment vehicles and holding companies are also natural buyers, given Switzerland's favourable tax treatment of commodity-linked investments.
This mandate is open to Swiss buyers now.
10kg, USD 5,000/kg below LBMA spot, full documentation, bank escrow, carrier delivery to Zurich or Geneva. WhatsApp to begin.
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