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GPHG 2022 Jury Announced

 








The jurors of this year's GPHG 2022 have been announced! 

Here is the link:  www.gphg.org

What are your favorite watches from this year's nominations?  Here is a list of this year's finalists: gphg.org

We also have a "Fantasy Football" style game where you can predict the winners of the GPHG!  Here's a link:  www.watchprosite.com

This year, I went to meet Herr Miki Eleta at his workshop in Switzerland.  I was very impressed.  He has a super impressive clock entered in the show which is even more impressive in person!  This year is a special year, it is the first year there is a "Mechanical Clock" category.  Keeping in mind, Eleta is arguably the artist the whole category is attributed to (in the 2021 edition of GPHG, he entered Svemir - but there wasn't a Mechanical Clock category then - under the "Mechanical Exceptions" category). 

Here's a link about my visit to Eleta's Atelier in Swizerland: www.watchprosite.com


Eleta makes everything by hand using saws, files, drills.  No CNC machines.  No computer-guided tools.  Wow!



 



The entire clock is sketched on paper.  No computer aided design (CAD) nor computer modeling. 



Eleta, who is about seventy, has only produced about 40 clocks in his entire career!  Picasso supposedly has made 30,000!  Photo Credit for all three photos: Miki Eleta website



So...  What are some of your favorite watches from this year's 2022 GPHG?  Any favorites?  Any particular piece you hope will win a specific category or the grand prize? 

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