Tonight the 2023 version of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève has simply unveiled who’s the grand winner of this yr’s awards ceremony! Typically considered the Oscars of Watchmaking, the GPHG stands for a celebration of all issues surrounding mechanical watchmaking. A specifically chosen jury has narrowed down all of the entries into a number of classes with 6 watches every. Out of all of the entries, just one has been chosen because the grand winner, receiving the coveted Aiguille d’Or trophy for Better of Present. Along with that, every class winner additionally obtained an award. Final yr, the spectacular MB&F Legacy Machine Sequential EVO, one of the crucial superior chronographs in the marketplace, took the golden hand again house. This yr, the jury of the GPHG 2023 was on a mission to rejoice watchmaking to the perfect of its capacities, rewarding what’s referred to as of one of the crucial sophisticated wristwatches ever created… A watch with no fewer than 40 features and 23 issues, the GPHG 2023 Aiguille d’Or goes to Audemars Piguet and its Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Extremely-Complication Universelle. And we have now all the opposite prizes too.
GPHG 2023 – QUICK TAKE
For 3 years in a row, the GPHG rewarded ultra-thin watchmaking. Following the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Extremely-Skinny in 2019 (again then the thinnest QP) and the Piaget Altiplano Final Idea in 2020 (the thinnest mechanical watch ever made), the 2021 award was given to Bulgari and the Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar. Final yr, nonetheless, the jury gave credit score to an extremely advanced chronograph, the Legacy Machine Sequential EVO, but additionally for the very first time it gave the grand prix to an unconventional unbiased watchmaker. This yr, the GPHG goes again to its classics, by awarding an ultra-complex watch… The Code 11.59 Universelle. And what a posh watch it’s certainly. AP has packed every thing it might into the brand new Calibre 1000, with 40 features, 23 issues, and a surprisingly compact case measurement (42mm x 15.5mm). The results of a number of R&D tasks (RD#1, RD#2 and RD#3), the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Extremely-Complication Universelle RD#4 sums up all of the experience of the model within the subject of chronographs, chiming watches, calendars, tourbillon, miniaturization and design.
As a consequence of an infinite record of issues and features, the Universelle sits proudly within the small group of probably the most advanced wristwatches. For a whole record of its features, you possibly can examine this text. Break up-seconds chronograph with flyback, minute repeater, grande sonnerie, perpetual calendar, tourbillon and a few extra… It does all of it. The Calibre 1000, a feast of miniaturization, is fabricated from 1,140 elements. And the watch stays in any other case fairly wearable and compact, with the distinctive form and design of the Code 11.59 assortment. The truth that this watch wins the Aiguille d’Or at GPHG 2023 is unquestionably anticipated and displays what the jury tends to reward yearly – perceive excessive issues – nevertheless it stays however a justified prize for what’s a really spectacular watch.
And now, right here’s the entire record of the successful watches on the GPHG 2023.
Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix – Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Extremely-Complication Universelle
This prize rewards the perfect total timepiece amongst all classes (Finest in Present), additionally deemed probably the most consultant of the watch business as an entire. It’s the most prestigious award.
Women’ Watch – Piaget Hidden Treasures
Women’ Complication – Dior Grand Soir Automate Etoile de Monsieur Dior
Males’s Complication – Voutilainen World Timer
Iconic Watch – Ulysse Nardin Freak One
Tourbillon Watch – Laurent Ferrier Grand Sport Tourbillon Pursuit
Calendar and Astronomy Watch – Bovet 1822 Récital 20 Astérium
Chronograph Watch – Petermann Bédat Chronographe rattrapante
Sports activities Watch – Tudor Pelagos 39
Jewelry Watch – Bulgari Serpenti Cleopatra
Inventive Crafts Watch – Piaget Altiplano Métiers d’Artwork Undulata
Petite Aiguille – Christopher Ward London C1 Bel Canto
Problem Watch – Raymond Weil Millésime computerized small seconds
Mechanical Clock – L’Epée 1839 Time Quick II Chrome
Innovation Prize – Hautlence Sphere Sequence 1
Audacity prize – Maison Alcée Persée Azur
Chronometry – Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB 3SPC
Horological revelation – Simon Brette Chronomètre Artisans
Particular Jury Prize – Svend Andersen and Vincent Calabrese
The Particular Jury Prize, which rewards an excellent character or establishment within the watchmaking world, was handed to Svend Andersen and Vincent Calabrese for the creation of the AHCI.
Extra particulars at GPHG.org.