Reading watches as data
Notes from the three tick-ticker sites — the price barometer, the GPHG prediction index, and the social presence index.
What ever happened to… the TAG Heuer Mikros
From 1/100th to 5/10,000ths of a second: how TAG Heuer's Mikro chronographs won an Aiguille d'Or at the GPHG, then vanished after Jean-Claude Biver arrived.
TAG Heuer and the Carbon Balance Spring: Third Time Lucky?
A short history of TAG Heuer's carbon balance spring — from the 2019 invention to the 2025 TH-Carbonspring industrialisation, and the six years that separated the two.
The GPHG's comeback brands
Dozens of watch brands have walked back into the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève after years away — some after a full relaunch. Who came back, what changed in the gap, and do comebacks actually win? The data has a surprising answer.
Who will win the GPHG 2026? I asked six AIs
The GPHG 2026 winner isn't announced until 7 November — so I put the same unanswerable question to six AI models. What each predicted, and which got the facts right.
I'm not the only one predicting the GPHG
I thought I was the only one running a predictive model on the GPHG dataset. Then I found Free Sprung — and a striking gap in both accuracy and openness.
Always the bridesmaid
The GPHG's most-decorated houses have a curious thing in common: fifteen prizes, twelve prizes — and not one Aiguille d'Or between them.
The three most expensive timepieces ever entered in the GPHG
The three most expensive watches ever entered at the GPHG — and why the two dearest never troubled the jury, or the GPHG Index model.
The GPHG's dead brands
A look at some of the brands that have been absent from the self-styled Oscars of watchmaking and why this might be so.
Marking the model's homework
The GPHG 2026 shortlist is out — so how did the Index's predictions actually fare, and who does the model now fancy to win?
GPHG 2026 - can an AI model predict the shortlists?
This article discusses the data and models used to predict winners at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève
BarometerReading watches as data
A short note on what this blog is for — three sites' worth of watch data, read the same way.
The One Shots
A look at the four brands who won a prize on their one and only appearance at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève.