Ian’s Predicted Winners of the 2024 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG)

Credits:  Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad.  See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/11/13/ians-predicted-winners-of-the-2024-grand-prix-dhorlogerie-de-geneve-gphg/

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Challenge category

Challenge: watches with a retail price equal to or under CHF 3,000. Smartwatches are admissible in this category.

Challenge finalists in the 2024 GPHG

My predicted winner: Spaceone Tellurium

Spaceone Tellurium

Runners up: Frédérique Constant Slimline Moonphase Date Manufacture seconde/seconde/

Audacity Prize (discretionary)

This prize rewards the best competing timepiece featuring a non-conformist, offbeat approach to watchmaking. It is intended to foster creative audacity. This prize is discretionary and the Jury will decide whether there are grounds for awarding it in 2024.

MB&F HM11 Architect

Predicted winner: MB&F HM11 Architect

“Horological Revelation” Prize (discretionary)

This prize rewards a competing timepiece created by a young brand (less than ten years of existence since its first model was commercialised). This prize is discretionary and the Jury will decide whether there are grounds for awarding it in 2024.

Garrick S3 MK2

Predicted winner: Garrick S3 MK2 

Chronometry Prize (discretionary)

This prize rewards the best competing timepiece that stands out for its remarkable precision timekeeping performance (special escapement or distinctive regulating device) and which is officially certified (ISO 3159 standards) by an inspection authority such as the COSC, TIMELAB, Besançon Observatory, etc. This prize is discretionary and the Jury will decide whether there are grounds for awarding it in 2024.

Bernhard Lederer 3 Times Certified Observatory Chronometer

Predicted winner: Bernhard Lederer 3 Times Certified Observatory Chronometer

Runners up: Nobody else is even close

Eco-innovation Prize

This prize rewards the best competing timepiece featuring significant developments linked to sustainability: traceability, ethics, materials, etc. This prize is discretionary and the Jury will decide whether there are grounds for awarding it in 2024.

Chopard L.U.C Qualité Fleurier

Predicted winner: Chopard L.U.C Qualité Fleurier (or any other Chopard)

Aiguilles d’Or

Aiguille d’Or Grand Prix:  this prize rewards the best overall timepiece among all categories (Best in Show), also deemed the most representative of the watch industry as a whole. It is the most prestigious award.

Predicted winner: De Bethune DB Kind Of Grande Complication but it will be a photo finish with the Louis Vuitton x Rexhep Rexhepi.

Runners up: Louis Vuitton x Rexhep Rexhepi LVRR-01 Chronographe à Sonnerie and Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Ultra COSC

For more information on all of these watches, please visit www.gphg.org/horlogerie/en/gphg-2023/nominated-timepieces

And don’t forget you can watch the GPHG action live Thursday night here on Quill & Pad.

Let us know who you think should win in the comments below.

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Credits:  Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad.  See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/11/13/ians-predicted-winners-of-the-2024-grand-prix-dhorlogerie-de-geneve-gphg/