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Culture<\/p>\n<p>                          Lifestyle<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            GPHG 2026: Our favourite luxury timepieces vying for top watch industry awards<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-controller=\"video-player\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/1536x864_cmsv2_7bd8e445-c0a8-55b1-bbfd-1e26701e88d5-9896980.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Watch this space: Euronews Culture&apos;s favourites for GPHG 2026\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              Watch this space: Euronews Culture&#8217;s favourites for GPHG 2026<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Credit: GPHG\u00a9\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspCyril Fourneris\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1788275498\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-09-01 17:11:38 +02:00\">01\/09\/2026 &#8211; 17:11 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__links 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class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Spread across 14 categories, each of the shortlisted timepieces are truly remarkable. The nominees a Moscow workshop taking on the Swiss giants, a wearable solar system, and a 10-kilo clock that winds your watch while you sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Each of the contenders will compete for one of the 19 prizes celebrating contemporary watchmaking creativity, including the prestigious &#8216;Aiguille d&#8217;Or&#8217; Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be revealed at a glittering award ceremony in Geneva on Saturday 7 November and you can watch the event live on Euronews Culture. But, before then, here&#8217;s a look at some of the pieces that have captured our hearts and minds. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Konstantin Chaykin \u2014 ThinKing Mystery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Category: Mechanical Exception<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Take two credit cards and stack them: 1.65 mm. That&#8217;s the thickness of this mechanical marvel, which happens to be wearing a mysterious little smile.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because while the big Swiss houses were busy fighting over the world&#8217;s-thinnest record, an independent watchmaker landed a serious blow from his workshop in Moscow. The ThinKing Mystery is billed as the thinnest series-produced mechanical watch in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_f856f65b-263f-5ff3-b2a5-618e2429e899-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"Konstantin Chaykin&apos;s ThinKing Mystery \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Konstantin Chaykin&#8217;s ThinKing Mystery <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s unravel the mystery: there is no watch inside the case. The case is the watch. It doubles as the movement&#8217;s mainplate. Two transparent sapphire discs display the time, and you never see what&#8217;s turning them. 12 pieces. \u20ac426,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Christiaan van der Klaauw \u2014 CVDK Grand Planetarium Eccentric Silicium<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Mechanical Exception<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A walk under a starry sky will never feel quite the same once you&#8217;re wearing this. The eight planets of the solar system, hand-painted, light up on your wrist \u2014 each one exactly where it sits in the real sky.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.0548523206751055\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x851_cmsv2_0b818b22-265e-52cb-bd53-930f4ddb565c-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"Christiaan Van Der Klaauw&apos;s Grand Planetarium Eccentric Silicium\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Christiaan Van Der Klaauw&#8217;s Grand Planetarium Eccentric Silicium<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The dial is made of iridescent oxidised silicon. The planets orbit across it in real time and at their true speed. Mercury laps the dial in three months. None of us will live to watch Neptune complete its orbit, which takes 165 years. The Dutch house already won the Calendar and Astronomy category in 2021. 6 pieces. \u20ac157,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ulysse Nardin X Urwerk \u2014 UR-FREAK<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Complication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When two of the most explosive names in independent watchmaking finally get together, you end up with a watch that has neither hands nor a crown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_422d4495-0469-5c53-a79c-e9adf2055013-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"When two become one: Ulysee Nardin and Urwerk&apos;s UR Freak\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">When two become one: Ulysee Nardin and Urwerk&#8217;s UR Freak<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Freak collection, launched in 2001 and already crowned in the Iconic category in 2023, tore up the rulebook: the entire movement rotates on itself and doubles as the hand.<\/p>\n<p>Urwerk brings its house speciality, the satellite hours: cubes mounted on rotating arms, with the active figure travelling along the minute scale. The movement pivots every three hours around a silicon balance wheel. Two radical grammars in a single watch. It&#8217;s quite something to say the least. 100 pieces. \u20ac115,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>L.Leroy \u2014 Vox Temporis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Artistic Crafts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Napoleon, Marie-Antoinette and Proust all read the time on a watch from L.Leroy, pioneer of French haute horlogerie.<\/p>\n<p>This one you don&#8217;t only look at. You listen to it. A single hand stays fixed while the dial turns beneath it to show the hour. The minutes are chimed: a minute repeater sounds them out loud. Hence the name, &#8220;the voice of time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.0005002501250626\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_300542c1-bedd-5830-94f6-bbeff01fb771-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"L. Leroy&apos;s Vox Temporis\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">L. Leroy&#8217;s Vox Temporis<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hidden beneath the case, a flying tourbillon improves accuracy. Above it, the rotating dial carries a flinqu\u00e9 soleil decoration finished with translucent dark blue varnish, under a hand-engraved hand. We&#8217;ve been touched. \u20ac341,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Louis Vuitton \u00d7 De Bethune \u2014 LVDB-03 Sympathique Louis Varius<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Mechanical Clock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One GPHG category isn&#8217;t reserved for wristwatches. It&#8217;s well worth mentioning one of the competitors. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine if your phone charger turned into a mechanical work of art. You get home, unclip the bracelet, drop your watch into its cradle. Overnight, the clock winds it and resets it to the right time. No electronics involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.0005561735261401\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_37b05577-1c9f-5ace-b7aa-575345abf8a4-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"A mechanical masterpiece: Louis Vuitton x De Bethune&apos;s LVDB-03 Sympahtique \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">A mechanical masterpiece: Louis Vuitton x De Bethune&#8217;s LVDB-03 Sympahtique <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mechanical wonder stands about 30 centimetres tall and weighs 10 kilos. On a titanium base inlaid with meteorite, three rose gold rings turn slowly around the structure. They&#8217;re hand-engraved after drawings by Belgian illustrator Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten: a steam train on a viaduct, hot-air balloons over the African savannah, sherpas on a mountain face, all drifting past.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the project: an alliance between French luxury giant Louis Vuitton, whose watchmaking arm sits just outside Geneva, and De Bethune, one of the most prestigious houses on the horological planet and already an &#8216;Aiguille d&#8217;Or&#8217; winner. 2 pieces. \u20ac4,717,000, clock and watch together.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Grand Seiko \u2014 Spring Drive U.F.A. Ushio 300 Diver<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty seconds. Whether you\u2019re working, running or diving, that&#8217;s all this watch is allowed to gain or lose. Not per day, not per month. Per year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_852d4eb7-055b-5e3a-b1c8-0af259340239-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"The big blue: Grand Seiko&apos;s Spring Drive U.F.A Ushio 300 Diver\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">The big blue: Grand Seiko&#8217;s Spring Drive U.F.A Ushio 300 Diver<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG\u00a9<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grand Seiko presents its first diver&#8217;s watch fitted with a U.F.A. movement, which the Japanese brand describes as the most accurate mainspring-powered movement ever made. The recipe: a quartz oscillator aged for three months to stabilise its precision.<\/p>\n<p>Ushio means &#8220;tide&#8221; in Japanese \u2014 a nod to the waters surrounding the archipelago of the Land of the Rising Sun. The house was already a GPHG winner in 2021. \u20ac10,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>IWC Schaffhausen \u2014 Big Pilot&#8217;s Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume\u00ae<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one leads two lives. By day, a white pilot&#8217;s watch. By night, a glowing blue object. IWC blended ceramic powder with Super-LumiNova pigments to make the case itself. The result: the whole watch glows for more than 24 hours \u2014 the hands, the case, the dial, the strap.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x404_cmsv2_56914d6c-34ec-5cd9-b5fc-89aea1a14166-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"Illuminating by day and night: IWC Schaffhausen Big Pilot&apos;s Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Illuminating by day and night: IWC Schaffhausen Big Pilot&#8217;s Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: GPHG<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inside sits IWC\u2019s well-known perpetual calendar, a legendary complication which knows the length of every month and every leap year, with no correction needed until 2100. The calendar shows the date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phases across four subdials. The movement offers a seven-day power reserve and can be admired through the sapphire crystal caseback. 250 pieces. \u20ac69,000.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>SpaceOne \u00d7 Baltic \u2014 Seconde Majeure<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Category: Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is creative watchmaking reserved for six- and seven-figure pieces? The Challenge category, which honors more affordable models, says no.<\/p>\n<p>Two Parisian brands sign the Seconde Majeure, built around a jumping hour module developed by Th\u00e9o Auffret, a rising star of independent haute horlogerie. It works through three visible components: beneath the minute disc sits the Central Command Mobile, which makes a full rotation every 60 minutes. At the end of that rotation it engages the Hours Star, which is linked to the hours disc. Finally, the Jumper Spring makes the hour jump, once every 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/69\/80\/808x808_cmsv2_f9a3b3e3-ed31-554d-822e-01387eea39b6-9896980.jpg\" alt=\"Rising to the challenge: Space One x Baltic&apos;s Seconde Majeure\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rising to the challenge: Space One x Baltic&#8217;s Seconde Majeure<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: Vincent Lions\/GPHG<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The kind of beauty that usually costs 10 to 50 times more. \u20ac3,200.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The independents are on a roll<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 26th awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 7 November 2026 in Geneva. Every shortlisted timepiece is in the running for the coveted &#8216;Aiguille d&#8217;Or&#8217; Grand Prix, awarded each year since 2001 to the most striking piece of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Each autumn, the timepieces nominated by the Academy \u2013 and subsequently the winners \u2013 travel around the world as part of a series of exhibitions offering an unrivalled overview of contemporary watchmaking\u2019s creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The GPHG has set out to open the competition to a wider range of houses, from a wider range of countries, with a growing contingent of independents.<\/p>\n<p>Several legendary names, on the other hand, aren&#8217;t competing at all. While Rolex has never participated, many of the missing brands are past winners: Patek Philippe, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, F.P. Journe, Richard Mille, A. Lange &amp; S\u00f6hne, Greubel Forsey, and Breguet, last year&#8217;s &#8216;Aiguille d\u2019Or&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics of watchmaking are going ahead without several of their record-holding stars. 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Galliano backs out of Met Gala show as racism backlash grows<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">The watch world and its legion of followers found out on Tuesday which 84 timepieces are in the running for the 2026 Grand Prix d&#8217;Horlogerie de Gen\u00e8ve, the industry&#8217;s top honour.Spread across 14 categories, each of the shortlisted timepieces are truly remarkable. The nominees a Moscow workshop taking on the Swiss giants, a wearable solar system, and a 10-kilo clock that winds your watch while you sleep.Each of the contenders will compete for one of the 19 prizes celebrating contemporary watchmaking creativity, including the prestigious &#8216;Aiguille d&#8217;Or&#8217; Grand Prix.The winners will be revealed at a glittering award ceremony in Geneva on Saturday 7 November and you can watch the event live on Euronews Culture. But, before then, here&#8217;s a look at some of the pieces that have captured our hearts and minds.Konstantin Chaykin \u2014 ThinKing MysteryCategory: Mechanical ExceptionTake two credit cards and stack them: 1.65 mm. That&#8217;s the thickness of this mechanical marvel, which happens to be wearing a mysterious little smile.Maybe because while the big Swiss houses were busy fighting over the world&#8217;s-thinnest record, an independent watchmaker landed a serious blow from his workshop in Moscow. The ThinKing Mystery is billed as the thinnest series-produced mechanical watch in the world.Let\u2019s unravel the mystery: there is no watch inside the case. The case is the watch. It doubles as the movement&#8217;s mainplate. Two transparent sapphire discs display the time, and you never see what&#8217;s turning them. 12 pieces. \u20ac426,000.Christiaan van der Klaauw \u2014 CVDK Grand Planetarium Eccentric SiliciumCategory: Mechanical ExceptionA walk under a starry sky will never feel quite the same once you&#8217;re wearing this. The eight planets of the solar system, hand-painted, light up on your wrist \u2014 each one exactly where it sits in the real sky.The dial is made of iridescent oxidised silicon. The planets orbit across it in real time and at their true speed. Mercury laps the dial in three months. None of us will live to watch Neptune complete its orbit, which takes 165 years. The Dutch house already won the Calendar and Astronomy category in 2021. 6 pieces. \u20ac157,000.Ulysse Nardin X Urwerk \u2014 UR-FREAKCategory: ComplicationWhen two of the most explosive names in independent watchmaking finally get together, you end up with a watch that has neither hands nor a crown.The Freak collection, launched in 2001 and already crowned in the Iconic category in 2023, tore up the rulebook: the entire movement rotates on itself and doubles as the hand.Urwerk brings its house speciality, the satellite hours: cubes mounted on rotating arms, with the active figure travelling along the minute scale. The movement pivots every three hours around a silicon balance wheel. Two radical grammars in a single watch. It&#8217;s quite something to say the least. 100 pieces. \u20ac115,000.L.Leroy \u2014 Vox TemporisCategory: Artistic CraftsNapoleon, Marie-Antoinette and Proust all read the time on a watch from L.Leroy, pioneer of French haute horlogerie.This one you don&#8217;t only look at. You listen to it. A single hand stays fixed while the dial turns beneath it to show the hour. The minutes are chimed: a minute repeater sounds them out loud. Hence the name, &#8220;the voice of time&#8221;.Hidden beneath the case, a flying tourbillon improves accuracy. Above it, the rotating dial carries a flinqu\u00e9 soleil decoration finished with translucent dark blue varnish, under a hand-engraved hand. We&#8217;ve been touched. \u20ac341,000.Louis Vuitton \u00d7 De Bethune \u2014 LVDB-03 Sympathique Louis VariusCategory: Mechanical ClockOne GPHG category isn&#8217;t reserved for wristwatches. It&#8217;s well worth mentioning one of the competitors.\u00a0Imagine if your phone charger turned into a mechanical work of art. You get home, unclip the bracelet, drop your watch into its cradle. Overnight, the clock winds it and resets it to the right time. No electronics involved.The mechanical wonder stands about 30 centimetres tall and weighs 10 kilos. On a titanium base inlaid with meteorite, three rose gold rings turn slowly around the structure. They&#8217;re hand-engraved after drawings by Belgian illustrator Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten: a steam train on a viaduct, hot-air balloons over the African savannah, sherpas on a mountain face, all drifting past.Behind the project: an alliance between French luxury giant Louis Vuitton, whose watchmaking arm sits just outside Geneva, and De Bethune, one of the most prestigious houses on the horological planet and already an &#8216;Aiguille d&#8217;Or&#8217; winner. 2 pieces. \u20ac4,717,000, clock and watch together.Grand Seiko \u2014 Spring Drive U.F.A. Ushio 300 DiverCategory: SportsTwenty seconds. Whether you\u2019re working, running or diving, that&#8217;s all this watch is allowed to gain or lose. Not per day, not per month. Per year.Grand Seiko presents its first diver&#8217;s watch fitted with a U.F.A. movement, which the Japanese brand describes as the most accurate mainspring-powered movement ever made. The recipe: a quartz oscillator aged for three months to stabilise its precision.Ushio means &#8220;tide&#8221; in Japanese \u2014 a nod to the waters surrounding the archipelago of the Land of the Rising Sun. The house was already a GPHG winner in 2021. \u20ac10,000.IWC Schaffhausen \u2014 Big Pilot&#8217;s Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume\u00aeCategory: SportsThis one leads two lives. By day, a white pilot&#8217;s watch. By night, a glowing blue object. IWC blended ceramic powder with Super-LumiNova pigments to make the case itself. The result: the whole watch glows for more than 24 hours \u2014 the hands, the case, the dial, the strap.Inside sits IWC\u2019s well-known perpetual calendar, a legendary complication which knows the length of every month and every leap year, with no correction needed until 2100. The calendar shows the date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phases across four subdials. The movement offers a seven-day power reserve and can be admired through the sapphire crystal caseback. 250 pieces. \u20ac69,000.SpaceOne \u00d7 Baltic \u2014 Seconde MajeureCategory: ChallengeIs creative watchmaking reserved for six- and seven-figure pieces? The Challenge category, which honors more affordable models, says no.Two Parisian brands sign the Seconde Majeure, built around a jumping hour module developed by Th\u00e9o Auffret, a rising star of independent haute horlogerie. It works through three visible components: beneath the minute disc sits the Central Command Mobile, which makes a full rotation every 60 minutes. At the end of that rotation it engages the Hours Star, which is linked to the hours disc. Finally, the Jumper Spring makes the hour jump, once every 60 minutes.The kind of beauty that usually costs 10 to 50 times more. \u20ac3,200.The independents are on a rollThe 26th awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 7 November 2026 in Geneva. 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