Horological Meandering

2.  Study the category definitions which are listed below for your convenience!  

3.  Choose one watch from each category and a winner of the show.  The winner of the show should not be the winner of any of the categories.  That is, the winner of the show is not chosen from the winners of the categories.  You're welcome to explain your thoughts about your choices, but it is not necessary!  

4.  You should have 15 category winners and a single show winner.  Total of 16 winners!  

5.  Please submit all your sixteen winners by commenting below.  

6.  The winner of our contest or whomever identifies all sixteen winners correctly, will get a prize!  

7.  The prize: our lucky member will be welcomed to attend a future GPHG awards show by yours truly!  

8.  There will only be a maximum of one prize winner.  In the event of more than one winner, whomever submits all the correct winners first will be deemed the winner.  Moderators are eligible to win.  All members with a registration starting date at the time of this posting are eligible to win!  Members whom are a part of the GPHG final jury are not eligible as they have the ability to influence the outcome.  

9.  All entrants must enter their list of winners by 11th of November 2025 11:59PM GMT timezone.  

10.  The GPHG will announce the winners on the 13th of November 2025 at the awards show in Geneva.  

Thank you for your participation and I'm looking forward to an interesting ten days of voting and seeing how our members vote!  Good luck to all of our participants!  

Categories and their definitions:

- Ladies’: feminine watches comprising the following indications only – hours, minutes, seconds, date (day of the month), power reserve indicator, classic moon phases – and that may potentially be adorned with a maximum 9-carat gemsetting.   

- Ladies’ Complication: feminine watches that are remarkable in terms of their mechanical creativity and complexity. These watches may feature all kinds of classic and/or innovative complications and indications (e.g. annual calendar, perpetual calendar, equation of time, complex moon phases, tourbillon, chronograph, world time, dual time or other types of model) and do not fit the definition of the Ladies’ and Mechanical Exception categories. 

- Time Only: watches displaying only analogue time indications (hours, minutes, seconds) by means of two or three hands on a solid dial, devoid of any other type of indication, complications or gemsetting.

- Men’s: masculine watches comprising the following indications only – hours, minutes, seconds, date (day of the month), power reserve indicator, classic moon phases – and that may potentially feature a digital/retrograde display or be adorned with a maximum 9-carat gemsetting.

- Men’s Complication: masculine watches that are remarkable in terms of their mechanical creativity and complexity. These watches may feature all kinds of classic and/or innovative complications and indications (e.g. world time, dual time, annual calendar, perpetual calendar, equation of time, complex moon phases display or other types of model) and do not fit the definition of the Men’s and Mechanical Exception categories.

- Iconic: watches stemming from an emblematic collection or model that has been exercising a lasting influence on watchmaking history and the watch market for more than 20 years or offering a contemporary reinterpretation.

- Tourbillon: mechanical watches comprising at least one tourbillon. Additional indications and/or complications are admissible. 

- Mechanical Exception: watches featuring a special mechanism, such as an innovative or sophisticated display, an automaton, a striking or any other acoustic function, a special escapement, a belt-driven movement or comprising another original and/or exceptional horological concept.

- Chronograph: mechanical watches comprising at least one chronograph indication. Additional indications and/or complications are admissible.

- Sports: watches linked to the world of sport, whose functions, materials and design are suited to physical exercise.

- Jewellery: watches demonstrating exceptional mastery of the art of jewellery and gemsetting, and also distinguished by the choice of stones.

- Artistic Crafts: watches demonstrating exceptional mastery of one or several artistic techniques such as enamelling, lacquering, engraving, guilloché (engine-turning), marquetry, skeleton-working, etc.

- “Petite Aiguille”: watches with a retail price between CHF 3,000 and CHF 10,000. Smartwatches are admissible in this category.

- Challenge: watches with a retail price equal to or under CHF 3,000. Smartwatches are admissible in this category.

- Mechanical Clock: mechanical instruments whose main function is time measurement, such as longcase clocks and table clocks. Wristwatches are not allowed in this category (see specific clauses for this category in points 6 and 8 of our Rules).