It” s time … for the most significant yearly occasion in watchmaking to happen. The 2021 version of the Grand Prix d’Horologie de Genève opens up Friday night (October 22) and also will certainly reveal truth face of horology as it stands post-COVID.
The mission for quality is a leading pressure throughout lots of crafts and also self-controls, and also the high-end watch market is no various. The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) intends to highlight and also compensate one of the most exceptional productions of the previous one year.
The 2021 listing of honor champions will certainly be revealed at the 21st GPHG honor event on Thursday, November 4, 2021.
You will certainly have the ability to enjoy the event reside in the media gamer over
Just enjoys launched right into the marketplace in between May 2020 and also completion of October 2021 have actually been qualified to participate in the Grand Prix.
Amongst the candidates are such radial stars as Vacheron Constantin, Louis Vuitton Montres, Zenith Watches, Girard-Perregaux, Ulysse Nardin, Hermès, Chanel, Breitling and also Audemars Piguet.
There are 14 classifications in this year’s choice consisting of 2 ‘issue’ classifications, one for guys and also one for women. Watches in these classifications are exceptional in regards to their mechanical creative thinking and also intricacy. These watches might include all sort of timeless and/or cutting-edge issues and also indicators (e.g. yearly schedule, continuous schedule, formula of time, facility moon stages, tourbillon, electronic or backward time display screen, globe time, twin time or various other sorts of design) and also do not fit the meaning of the normal sex classification.
Various other classifications to watch out for are:
- Iconic: enjoys from a typical collection that has actually been working out an enduring impact on watchmaking background and also the watch market for greater than two decades.
- Schedule and also Astronomy: guys’s mechanical watches consisting of a minimum of one schedule and/or huge issue (e.g. day, yearly schedule, continuous schedule, formula of time, facility moon stages show, and so on). Added indicators and/or issues are acceptable.
- Mechanical Exemption: enjoys including an unique device, such as an ingenious or advanced display screen, a robot, a striking or any kind of various other acoustic feature, an unique escapement, a belt-driven motion or any kind of various other initial and/or outstanding horological principle.
- Jewelry: enjoys showing outstanding proficiency of the art of jewelry and also gemsetting, as well as additionally differentiated by the selection of rocks.
- Artistic Crafts: enjoys showing outstanding proficiency of one or a number of creative methods such as enamelling, lacquering, inscription, guilloché (engine-turning), skeleton-working, and so on
- Tiny Aiguille: enjoys with a market price in between CHF 3,500 and also CHF 10,000. Smartwatches are acceptable in this classification.
