The Grande Sonnerie, the most complex Greubel Forsey creation to date, has been awarded the ?Mechanical Exception? prize at the Grand Prix d?Horlogerie de Genève.

Conducting 11 years of research, assembling no less than 935 parts, filing two patents, incorporating Greubel Forsey?s third Fundamental Invention (Tourbillon 24 Secondes), developing an acoustic resonance cage generating an extreme purity of sound, installing eleven functional safety features ensuring unparalleled intuitive ease of use, performing a three-year wearing test? As highlighted by this only partial list of the stages involved, the creation of the Grande Sonnerie was indeed a monumental undertaking by Robert Greubel, Stephen Forsey and their team. This timepiece embodies the quintessence of their expertise and their ideal of horological excellence. The Grande Sonnerie is undoubtedly one of the greatest horological complications. Right from the beginning of their partnership, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey began reflecting on what their own resolutely contemporary vision of this regal complication might be. For eleven years, the Grande Sonnerie set the cadence of their day-to-day lives, as they worked in the utmost secrecy to assemble the 935 components of this timepiece, and above all to ensure absolute harmony between the movement, the exterior and the acoustics. Its ergonomics guarantee unparalleled intuitive ease of use. To ensure optimal architectural balance, obsessive attention to detail ...