Editor’s Top 5 Favorites from Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2026

1. The Winner Takes It All

To Aiguille d’Or winner Rexhep Rexhepi, each watch is a performance. And with the Chronographe Flyback from the eponymous brand you clearly have a winner made by the 39-year-old master watchmaker. A 38.8-millimetre platinum case houses a hand wound, flyback chronograph with a jumping-minute counter.  The blue enamel grand feu dial is of course made in-house, and gets a contemporary touch thanks to its pairing with smoked sapphire counters.

2. Double Up

Blancpain Grande Double Sonnerie has not only one, but two four-note melodies to strike time. One is a traditional Westminster, whereas the other is a melody created exclusively for Blancpain by Eric Carr, legendary drummer of KISS.

This watch with a completely integrated movement is the most complicated project Blancpain has ever undertaken. Developed over eight years, it is comprised of 1,053 components within the calibre, and 1,116 components in total. 21 patents were developed by the team throughout the project, 13 of which made it into the final watch. 

3. Bark at the Moon 

With Chopard Mystery Nut Chopard’s Co-President and Artistic Director Caroline Scheufele takes the pendant trend one step further. This mystery watch is made of  18-carat ethical rose gold draped with nearly 430 carats of cascading brown, cognac and yellow briolette-cut diamonds, reminiscent of tree bark.

Inside the nut, one shell-half carries a moon phase watch framed by blued titanium and diamonds, whereas the other half carries a diamond-set dove carrying an olive branch – a strong message in the shaky times we live in. 

4. It’s a Mystery

Parmingiani Tonda PF Chronograph Mystérieux looks like a time only watch. Until you press the barely visible chronograph button at seven o’clock. All three rhodium plated hands fly back to twelve and start measuring elapsed time in a chronograph manner. Time is safeguarded and indicated by two rose gold hands appearing as out of nowhere. A second push stops the chronograph hands, and a third push returns the rhodium-plated hands to the correct time. The rose gold hands are no longer anywhere to be seen, hiding by perfect underlying alignment with the rhodium hands. Magic by mechanics. 

5. Yes, Precisely

Ferdinand Berthoud Naissance d’une Montre 3 – officially chronometer-certified by the COSC – was handcrafted using traditional tools. Without digital assistance!

This impressive time-keeper features a constant force via a fusee-and-chain transmission system, bimetallic balance spring, central seconds hand, open structure. And above all, this piece presented in the tenth anniversary of Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud is everything that the 18th-centrury watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud was famous for: extreme precision and technical aesthetics.