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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.
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?
My favourite is the. Czapek Ice blue.
An odd ball selection of judges. What qualifies these people? - just MHO.
All they need is Nico for a non biased review!
The jurors are collectors, industry stakeholders, retailers, and journalists.
Amanico is not a member of the jury pool. This is the one jury duty I wouldn't mind doing!
I study the page and concluded i found an astonishing peace
To hide my taste is difficult.
In the category Mechanical Exception my eyes stuck at the Chopard.
This L.U.C. is a M E, so it is a joy to see the hammers and a bell pictogram.
The minute hand on the tourbillon makes it all complete.
Next.
At the Artisan category i fell that AP with the enamel blue dial is the winner. But it is if i put my own taste as leading.
In the category Tourbillon i chose Theo Auffret Tourbillon Grand Sport as a complex watch which do not lost it’s legibility.
See if the force on the mainspring is allright, is for me a sign this watch is a clever peace for the wrist.
Overall, i like the L.U.C. Chopard Full Strike Tourbillon the most of all nominees.
In the category Mechanical Exception my eyes stuck at the Chopard.
This L.U.C. is a M E, so it is a joy to see the hammers and a bell pictogram.
The minute hand on the tourbillon makes it all complete.
Next.
At the Artisan category i fell that AP with the enamel blue dial is the winner. But it is if i put my own taste as leading.
In the category Tourbillon i chose Theo Auffret Tourbillon Grand Sport as a complex watch which do not lost it’s legibility.
See if the force on the mainspring is allright, is for me a sign this watch is a clever peace for the wrist.
Overall, i like the L.U.C. Chopard Full Strike Tourbillon the most of all nominees.