The Grand Prix D'Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG) Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve awards ceremony took place for the 14th time in Switzerland's second largest city.
The event, during which the works of watchmaking were noted, representing examples of perfection, innovation and realization of the richest experience in this field, was held in the building of the Grand Theater of Geneva.
The ceremony was attended by about 1,5 thousand guests, among whom were influential figures not only in the watch industry, but also representatives of the financial and political elite. Participation in the event was a record number of representatives of leading watch companies and independent producers.
The international jury awarded 16 prizes to the watchmakers, including the main prize - the Golden Hour Arrow, which Breguet received for the Classic Chronométrie. The award was presented by a member of the Federal Council and the head of the Ministry of Trade of Switzerland, Johann Schneider-Ammann, who highly appreciated the viability of the national watch industry.
In the "Women's Watches" nomination the Blancpain brand won with the Women Off-centered Hour, the best men's watches were Central Second by Urban Jürgensen & Sonner.
The best "jeweler watches" were the Diva High Jewelery Emeralds from Bulgari, the Classic Fusion Cathedral Tourbillon Minute Repeater from Hublot received the prize in the nomination "Spectacular clock". The award for artistic execution went to Voutilainen for the Hisui model, and the most "innovative" were the EMC watches produced by Urwerk.
In the nomination "Women's high-tech mechanical watches" Christophe Claret brand won with the Margot model, in which the owner is given the opportunity to "betray" on the daisy-petals of the daisies decorating the dial.
The automatic mechanism of the Margot is equipped with an innovative sophisticated device that allows the owner of the watch to literally "tear off" the petals from the daisy in the center of the dial. Each time the button is pressed on the body next to the "2 hours" mark, crystal clear sound is heard, and the petal, and sometimes the pair of petals that can not be predicted, simply disappears from the dial.
The answer to the question "likes or dislikes" appears in the form of an inscription in French in the window of the indicator "Forces of Senses" near the mark "4 hours": "un peu" (little), "beaucoup" (very), "passionnément" (passionately) , "à la folie" (madly) and "pas du tout" (does not like at all).