As an Academy member of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, I cast my votes last month for the watches to become the nominees for the 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Along with other 649 members from around the world, we submitted our votes digitally to narrow down the list from 254 watches—entered into this year’s competition— down to 90 selected timepieces. The 90 nominees include 84 watches and 6 clocks. Divided into 15 categories, these timepieces are in the running to win one of the 20 prizes of this 22nd edition of the GPHG, including the prestigious “Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix best-in-show award. The nominated watches will be exhibited in New Delhi on October 8th and 9th, 2022, in partnership with Ethos Watches. Then in Casablanca, Morocco, from October 20th thru the 23rd, 2022, within the prestigious setting of the Villa Roosevelt. The latter exhibition, a first for the GPHG on the African continent, is organized in partnership with the Bank of Africa.

Back in Geneva, the 90 nominated timepieces will be exhibited from November 2nd thru the 20th, 2022 at the Musée Rath, in partnership with the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire —MAH. The presentation of the six timepieces competing in the new "Mechanical Clock" category will give rise to a dialogue with a matching number of heritage works exceptionally selected from the watchmaking collections of the MAH and the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds —MIH.

The 2022 list of award-winners will be announced on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 at the 22nd GPHG awards ceremony, which will take place at the Théâtre du Léman in Geneva.

After the ceremony, the winning watches of the 2022 edition will travel to Zürich at the end of November for a private presentation in collaboration with FGP Swiss & Alps, main partner of the GPHG for the past three years. They will finally be exhibited for the first time in New York, from December 1st thru the 4th, 2022, in partnership with Watches of Switzerland.

Below please find all the nominated timepieces grouped by the category they are competing in.

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