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The 2018 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève

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4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Recorded the morning after the 2018 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), Editor-In-Chief Jack Forster and host Stephen Pulvirent sit down to recap the most important awards ceremony in watches. They chat about Jack's experience as a juror, how the GPHG works behind the scenes, the various winners, some controversies, and what the Grand Prix can tell us about the state of the watch industry more generally. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

All right, it's the morning after here in Geneva.

0:03.7

Last night was the Grand Prix D'O'Ogerie de Genev, or the GPH.

0:08.1

These are the biggest awards in watchmaking, sometimes called the Oscars of watchmaking.

0:12.1

And our own Jack Forrester was on the jury for the second time,

0:15.9

and I got to attend for the very first time.

0:18.6

So we thought it would be good to sit down just a couple hours after the show.

0:22.4

The sun is barely up and we're sitting

0:24.8

in Jack's hotel room to record a little bit of a recap to talk through the

0:30.3

watches that won the watches that didn't win, what trends we noticed, and kind of the

0:34.8

state of the awards overall.

0:37.8

I'm your host Stephen Pulverin, and this is Hodincky Radio. This week's episode is brought to you by Hook and Albert.

0:47.0

Stay tuned later in the show to learn more about this global travel brand and their range of travel accessories.

0:55.0

You can also learn more at hookinalvert.com. All right, good to be here with you, Jack. Thanks for, thanks for doing this.

1:08.0

Well, thank you for putting this all together, Stephen.

1:10.0

For sure, I know you've had a long couple of days so it's you know what it's about 12 hours I guess after the

1:17.8

Award ceremony ended we're sitting here in your room at the Kimpinski Hotel in Geneva.

1:24.6

Yes.

1:25.0

Scenic, lovely, I guess sort of gray Geneva.

1:28.6

Yeah, it's been kind of classic Geneva weather all week.

1:30.8

I think I've seen the sun maybe for 45 minutes. That's kind of

1:34.4

appropriate right for this week. Oh yeah yeah it's perfect it puts you in

1:37.2

exactly the right mood for voting on watches. So you know we'll get into the

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