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Bar chart of GPHG prizes won by brand from 2001 to 2026. Audemars Piguet leads with 19, ahead of Piaget on 16, Van Cleef & Arpels on 15 and Chopard on 14; 2026 prizes for Audemars Piguet, Piaget, Chopard, Patek Philippe and Ferdinand Berthoud are highlighted in blue.
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Top of the table: how the GPHG 2026 results reshaped the all-time rankings

Audemars Piguet was already top of the GPHG's all-time prize table. The 2026 results stretched its lead, broke a tie for second, lifted Chopard, Patek Philippe and Ferdinand Berthoud, and sent two perfect records west.

9 November 2026
The Rexhep Rexhepi Chronograph Flyback, winner of the Aiguille d'Or Grand Prix at the GPHG 2026 in Geneva.
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GPHG 2026 winners: did the model call it?

GPHG 2026 winners: Rexhep Rexhepi's Chronograph Flyback took the Aiguille d'Or. Our model called 4 of the 14 category prizes and had Rexhepi near the bottom of its Grand Prix ranking.

8 November 2026
The golden Aiguille d'Or trophy awarded at the GPHG in Geneva, the prize every brand is chasing on 7 November 2026.
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GPHG 2026: who will win the Aiguille d'Or? 25 years of results

The GPHG 2026 ceremony is on 7 November. Our database of every winner since 2001 shows who has won the Aiguille d'Or, the patterns and the odds for each 2026 brand.

6 November 2026
The MB&F SP One Platinum, on the GPHG 2026 Essential shortlist. MB&F has the best GPHG strike rate of any brand with ten or more entries: 8 prizes from 13 watches.
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The GPHG strike rate nobody talks about

Prizes won per watch entered: across 25 years of the GPHG the field converts 6 per cent. Voutilainen converts 50, MB&F 62, and the biggest entrants fewer than 10. The jury rewards selectivity.

17 October 2026
A vintage watch dial reassembled and running again — the Daniel Roth name returned to the GPHG in 2024 after fifteen years away, and won.
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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.

24 September 2026
Six AI chatbots asked to predict the winner of the GPHG 2026 watch awards
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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.

15 September 2026
Two independent predictive models built on the same GPHG watch-awards dataset
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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.

15 September 2026
A Van Cleef & Arpels Poetic Complication — the GPHG's most-decorated house, and still no Aiguille d'Or
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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.

14 September 2026
A photo showing the three most expensive timepieces entered in the GPHG
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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.

10 September 2026
Weather forecaster Michael Fish
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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?

4 September 2026
Can you predict winners at the GPHG?
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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

2 September 2026