Today, November 13th, 2024, IWC has been awarded the Aiguille d’Or Grand Prix at the 2024 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève —GPHG— for the new Portugieser Eternal Calendar. One of the most impressive and horologically advanced timepieces presented at Watches & Wonders 2024. This watch pushes the boundaries of horology with a secular perpetual calendar.
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Breaking News: MB&F LM Sequential EVO Wins the GPHG 2022 Aiguille d'Or Grand Prize
Today, November 10th, 2022, MB&F has been awarded the Aiguille d’Or Grand Prix at the 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève —GPHG. It took 17 years after the release of their first watch for MB&F to release their first chronograph and its 20th calibre. One movement with two chronographs and multiple timing modes. Conceived with Stephen McDonnell, who previously reinvented the LM perpetual calendar for MB&F, the Legacy Machine Sequential EVO movement incorporates two column-wheel chronographs and a groundbreaking “Twinverter” binary switch, allowing multiple timing modes including split-second and lap timer modes —a combination never seen before in any chronograph.
From the Editor: Behind the Scenes as a Juror at the 2021 GPHG and the Winning Watches
When I launched WCL eight years ago, I never imagined one day I’d be part of the jury for the most important awards in the watch industry, pretty much the ‘Oscars’ for watches. Last week on Monday, November 1st, 2021, I gathered at the Musée Rath in Geneva, Switzerland along with 29 other jury members to vote for the watches competing at the 2021 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève —GPHG.
News: GPHG 2020 Prize Winners. The Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept Watch Takes the 'Aiguille d'Or'.
Yesterday November 12th, 2020, the GPHG —Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève— awards ceremony took place in Geneva, Switzerland unveiling the winners of this year’s competition in a poetic digital show masterfully hosted by actor Edouard Baer. Watchmaking excellence and vitality were saluted by the Jury and the new GPHG Academy, which handed out 19 prizes and awarded the ‘Aiguille d’Or’ Grand Prix to Piaget for the Altiplano Ultimate Concept watch.
