Last night in Geneva the great and the good of the watch industry assembled for the GPHG awards, crowning Chopard’s LUC Full Strike with top honours. Here’s the full list of winners, plus a few conversation-starting observations.
By Chris Hall

The GPHG awards – the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve – have been awarded since 2001. Founded by (among others) the city and canton of Geneva, the International Museum of Horology, they have come to carry a pretty good deal of weight in the industry. There are a lot of awards out there (a walk through the lobby of literally every watch brand will tell you that) but the GPHG has come to nestle at the top of the tree. Partly it’s the pomp and ceremony, but mainly it’s the rigorous procedures followed by the deciding jury drawn from all over the world, from within the industry and without. These awards are conferred by those who really know what they’re talking about. The “Oscars of the watch world”, they call them.  The Chopard LUC Full Strike won the overall prize, the Aiguille d’Or
Every year awards are given in a number of categories (which have changed from time to time) and the competition is stiff in nearly all of them. That’s understandable – whatever direction the industry as a whole might be heading in there are a lot of really outstanding watches being created. An overall prize is also given – the “Aiguille d’...