This summer, the 1,050 members of the GPHG Academy selected 84 watches and 6 clocks from among the 302 models submitted by 184 brands. Divided into 15 categories, these exceptional timepieces will now compete for one of the 20 prizes awarded to the year’s most beautiful watch creations, including the highly coveted “Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix.

The 2025 winners will be announced on Thursday 13 November at the 25th GPHG awards ceremony, to be held at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva. The event will be broadcast live on gphg.org and shared by the GPHG’s media partners.

Ahead of the ceremony, the nominated watches will be exhibited in China, Turkey and then Switzerland, before heading to Dubai where the winning models will be presented after the prize list has been announced.

As a partner in the first stage of the 2025 World Tour, Hantang Culture will host the exhibition in Shanghai from 29 September to 8 October, during Golden Week. Committed to promoting cultural exchanges between East and West, Hantang Culture is supporting the GPHG in showcasing Swiss watchmaking excellence in China.

The tour will continue in Istanbul from 15 to 20 October, for a unique exhibition organised with the Turkish fashion group Vakko in its private hotel on the banks of the Bosphorus, a first in Turkey.

Offering the public an umatched overview of the creativity of contemporary watchmaking – a jewel in the crown of Swiss culture and industry – these first two exhibitions also provide the ideal setting in which to celebrate this year’s anniversaries of friendly diplomatic relations between these two countries and Switzerland.

Geneva’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire will in turn welcome the nominated timepieces from 29 October to 16 November 2025 to its historic premises. A wide-ranging cultural outreach programme will be offered to the public and schools as part of this event.

As the final stop on the 2025 tour, Dubai Watch Week will honour the 2025 winners from 19 to 23 November, after the 25th awards ceremony.

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Jean-Marie Shaller, the owner of the brand described this release as Art: “Space Revolution is art.” Several techniques have been used to push the limits in this creation.  Moinet claims the Space Revolution is more accurate than a tourbillon using two oscillators with a differential gear mechanism. Perfect rotation and poising of the rotating elements using 5 ball-bearings with 7 ceramic balls and 1 ball-bearing with 9 ceramic balls.

The movements relied on two barrels, each supplying energy to a tourbillon – Ultra-complex mechanism with 470 components. The mechanism is hidden in the base of the chassis, measuring a mere 3.75 mm thick. The central column transmits orders to the tourbillons, spaceships and hands.

Space Revolution features an aventurine dial of exceptional quality. It was acquired more than 50 years ago by the father of Daniel Haas, the brand partner in extraordinary gems. From the original block to final polishing, more than eight handcrafted steps are required to prepare it for appearing at its best advantage.

The tourbillon cages are hexagonal and geometrically shaped – each cage weighs only 0.24 grams, in order to guarantee suitable speed through fine poising. The two tourbillons are both one minute flying tourbillon, mounted on a rotating satellite arms- we call them orbital flying tourbillon.

The science-fiction inspired spaceships are made of high-tech titanium. Titanium is ultra light. This lightness is essential for a very high-speed revolution: a complete turn of the dial takes five minutes for BLACK FORCE, and ten minutes for RED FORCE.

Why such a fast speed? It gives life to a playful show, in perpetual motion.

The spaceship serves a technical function, acting as a counterweight to the opposite tourbillon. The finishing is hand-crafted and the vibrancy of the red and black colours stems from an applied lacquer.

A selector placed on the case-back features two distinct positions for time-setting and winding. The crown is no longer pulled out and is used to either set the hands or to wind the mechanism.

A themed presentation box for an original creation. The fastening system faithfully reproduces BLACK FORCE and stems from complex modelling and a painstaking production process. The sphere is coated with a material immersing us into the graphic universe of meteorites.

The Retail price is at CHF 360,000 before taxes  for the 8 watches with aventurine & golden spaceships

Check it out on their website:

Space Revolution LM-104.50.52

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