Tag: GPHG Prize
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GPHG 2026: La Vallée’s COSMO Takes the Mechanical Clock Prize
At the 26th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, La Vallée’s COSMO claimed the Mechanical Clock Prize with a concept that feels both audacious and inevitable: an entire 14.5-kilogram mechanism, magnetically suspended and rotating on its own axis once every sidereal day.
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GPHG 2026 – Rexhep Rexhepi Takes the Aiguille d’Or
Geneva crowned its best again. At the 26th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, the Aiguille d’Or went to Rexhep Rexhepi for the Chronograph Flyback, a clear nod to substance over spectacle. Under the gaze of the UNESCO Director-General, the industry gathered not for noise, but for craft.
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Rexhep Rexhepi RRCHF Chronograph Flyback – precision shaped by restraint
Rexhep Rexhepi’s first flyback chronograph arrives with the calm assurance of a well tuned atelier. The RRCHF is an integrated, hand wound calibre built for thinness and clarity, where every line serves the function. It reads like a performance, but one scored for precision rather than applause.
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Ulysse Nardin Freak One Blue Enamel – 25 Years of Motion and Fire
The Freak turned watchmaking inside out in 2001. A quarter century on, Ulysse Nardin marks the milestone with the Freak [One Blue Enamel], a 99-piece ode to motion and métier. It keeps the radical brief intact – no dial, no hands, no crown – yet quietly adds a classical flourish: a guilloché-flinqué hour disc in…
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Eight Years, 21 Patents, Two Songs: Blancpain’s Grande Double Sonnerie Is a Watchmaking First
Blancpain has just pulled off something no one thought possible on the wrist: a grande sonnerie that plays two different melodies. Not two chimes. Two actual tunes, on demand, switched with a push of a button on the case. Welcome the Grande Double Sonnerie, ref. 15GSQ, and quite possibly the most complicated watch Blancpain has…
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MB&F LM Perpetual Chromatic Editions – colour at the bezel, discipline in the movement
MB&F turns the LM Perpetual toward color in 2026 with three Chromatic editions, each framed by a hand-set ring of 48 baguette-cut stones. White gold meets blue sapphires or purple sapphires, sourced from Madagascar and Sri Lanka. Red gold pairs with rubies from Mozambique. The geometry of the case stays trim despite the gemstones, thanks…
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Tangente, refined – NOMOS brings the ring date to 38.5 mm and 18 kt gold
NOMOS Glashütte revisits its signature Tangente Update with a trimmer 38.5 millimeters and, for the first time, an 18 kt gold case. Same clean geometry, now with a little evening-wear gravitas.