Credits: Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/04/19/which-watches-do-you-think-merit-contention-in-the-2024-grand-prix-dhorlogerie-de-geneve-gphg/
While the red carpet GPHG prize giving ceremony isn’t until the 13th of November 2024, GPHG Academy members (I’m honored to be one of them), have until the 26 of April to submit suggestions for watches for consideration.
I’m interested to hear your thoughts on which watches warrant contention and what you think about the category changes.
The 2024 category rules haven’t been published yet, so I’ve used the 2023 rules below. For 2024, Academy members can nominate six watches in each of the following categories:
Ladies: women’s watches comprising the following indications only – hours, minutes, seconds, simple date (day of the month), power reserve, classic moon phases – and potentially adorned with a maximum 9-carat gemsetting.
* Note that simple two or three handed watches might enter in the ‘Time Only’ category at the bottom.
Ladies Complication: women’s watches that are remarkable in terms of their mechanical creativity and complexity. These watches may feature all kinds of classic and/or innovative complications and indications (e.g. annual calendar, perpetual calendar, equation of time, complex moon phases, tourbillon, digital or retrograde time display, world time, dual time or other types of model) and do not fit the definition of the Ladies’ and Mechanical Exception categories.
Men’s: men’s watches comprising the following indications only – hours, minutes, seconds, simple date (day of the month), power reserve, classic moon phases – and potentially adorned with a maximum 9-carat gemsetting.
* Note that simple two or three handed watches might enter in the ‘Time Only’ category at the bottom.
Men’s Complication: men’s watches that are remarkable in terms of their mechanical creativity and complexity. These watches may feature all kinds of classic and/or innovative complications and indications (e.g. world time, dual time or other types of model) and do not fit the definition of the Men’s and Mechanical Exception categories.
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Credits: Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/04/19/which-watches-do-you-think-merit-contention-in-the-2024-grand-prix-dhorlogerie-de-geneve-gphg/