It’s time … for the most significant yearly occasion in watchmaking to occur. The 2021 version of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève opens up Friday night (October 22) as well as will certainly reveal truth face of horology as it stands post-COVID.
The mission for quality is an assisting pressure throughout numerous crafts as well as techniques, as well as the high-end watch market is no various. The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) intends to highlight as well as award one of the most exceptional productions of the previous year.
The 2021 checklist of honor champions will certainly be revealed at the 21st GPHG honor event on Thursday, November 4, 2021.
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” First off, it’s most likely the best-known watch reward worldwide, leading. Second, it’s acknowledgment by the peers. Due to the fact that you have professionals picking the watches, you have professionals choosing the watches,” Georges Kern, chief executive officer of Breitling informed Euronews, in advance of the opening.
For the 2nd year straight, the Grenchen-based watch manufacturer has 4 items in the 84 chosen by the GPHG Academy.
” Obviously, at the end of the day, it’s the customer that chooses what watch achieves success or otherwise,” claimed Kern. “Yet a minimum of you understand it’s something excellent if you win.”
As well as one of the most prominent reward right here is the “Grand Prix de l’Aiguille d’Or”, won in 2014 by Piaget for their Altiplano Ultimate Idea version.
Just views launched right into the marketplace in between Might 2020 as well as 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 as well as Audemars Piguet.
There are 14 groups in this year’s option consisting of 2 ‘difficulty’ groups, one for guys as well as one for girls. Watches in these groups are exceptional in regards to their mechanical imagination as well as intricacy. These watches might include all sort of timeless and/or ingenious problems as well as signs (e.g. yearly schedule, continuous schedule, formula of time, facility moon stages, tourbillon, electronic or backward time display screen, globe time, double time or various other sorts of version) as well as do not fit the meaning of the regular sex groups, which are as complies with:
Ladies’: ladies’s watches making up the complying with signs just – hrs, mins, secs, basic day (day of the month), power book, timeless moon stages – as well as possibly decorated with an optimum 9-carat gemsetting.
Male’s: guys’s watches making up the complying with signs just – hrs, mins, secs, basic day (day of the month), power book, timeless moon stages – as well as possibly decorated with an optimum 5-carat gemsetting.
Various other groups to keep an eye out for are:
- Iconic: views from a characteristic collection that has actually been working out a long-term impact on watchmaking background as well as the watch market for greater than two decades.
- Schedule as well as Astronomy: guys’s mechanical watches making up a minimum of one schedule and/or expensive difficulty (e.g. day, yearly schedule, continuous schedule, formula of time, facility moon stages show, and so on). Added signs and/or problems are acceptable.
- Mechanical Exemption: views including an unique device, such as a cutting-edge or innovative display screen, a robot, a striking or any kind of various other acoustic feature, an unique escapement, a belt-driven activity or any kind of various other initial and/or remarkable horological principle.
- Jewelry: views showing remarkable proficiency of the art of jewelry as well as gemsetting, as well as likewise differentiated by the selection of rocks.
- Artistic Crafts: views showing remarkable proficiency of one or numerous imaginative strategies such as enamelling, lacquering, inscription, guilloché (engine-turning), skeleton-working, and so on
- Small Aiguille: views with a market price in between CHF 3,500 as well as CHF 10,000. Smartwatches are acceptable in this classification.
- Tourbillon: guys’s mechanical watches making up a minimum of one tourbillon. Added signs and/or problems are acceptable.
- Chronograph: mechanical watches making up a minimum of one chronograph indicator. Added signs and/or problems are acceptable.
- Scuba diver’s: views connected to the globe of diving, whose features, products as well as style are matched to this task.
- Difficulty: views with a market price equivalent to or under CHF 3,500. Smartwatches are acceptable in this classification.
