The jury of the 22nd edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), held at the Théâtre du Leman in Geneva on 10 November 2022, has chosen the 2022 winners in each of the fifteen main categories.
The international jury has awarded the “Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix, the highest distinction honoring the finest timepiece of the year, to the MB&F Legacy Machine Sequential EVO (click here to read the article that we published on 31 May 2022). Congratulations to the entire team at MB&F.
We list below all the other 2022 prize winners in the various categories (links will bring you to related articles when available).
Ladies’ Complication: Hermès Arceau Le temps voyageur for Ladies
Men’s Complication: Hermès Arceau Le temps voyageur for Men
Calendar and Astronomy: Krayon Anywhere
Mechanical Exception: Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB RSM with Deadbeat Seconds
Chronograph: Grönefeld 1941 Grönograaf
Diver’s: Tudor Pelagos FXD
Jewellery: Bulgari Serpenti Misteriosi
Artistic Crafts: Voutilainen Ji-Ku
“Petite Aiguille” (watches with a retail price between CHF 4,000 and CHF 10,000): Trilobe Nuit Fantastiquie Dune Edition
Challenge (watches with a retail price under CHF 4,000): M.A.D.1 RED watch
Mechanical Clock: Van Cleef & Arpels Fontaine Aux Oiseaux Automaton
Other special prizes were awarded. The special Innovation prize went to Van Cleef & Arpels for the Lady Arpels Heures Florales Cerisier, a watch enhanced by white and yellow diamonds, pink sapphires, white mother-of-pearl, miniature painting, and powered by a self-winding mechanical movement equipped with a flower-opening module for the hours and lateral minutes display.
With its Octo Finissimo Ultra, Bulgari won the Audacity award, rewarding the best watch, presented in one of the fifteen categories, with a non-conformist, offbeat approach to watchmaking.
The Horological Revelation prize rewarded the Origine model by Sylvain Pinaud.
Awarded to the the best competing timepiece that stands out for its remarkable precision timekeeping performance and which is officially certified (ISO 3159 standards) by an inspection authority, the Chronometry prize went to Grand Seiko for its Kodo Constant-force Tourbillon.
Finally, the Special Jury Prize was assigned to François Junot, a master maker of automata based in Sainte-Croix, France.
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