As with any awards show, there can be a discrepancy between which watches fans think should have won and the watches that actually win. And it has to be said that the divide between popular and GPHG opinion is something of a canyon these days, with mega-brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe curiously not making any kind of showing. If this is indeed the “Oscars” for watchmaking, aren’t we rolling without Spielberg? Or, in the modern day, saying no to Nolan? This is a subject deserving of a post of its own, because, of course, “it’s complicated”. How so? It’s like, they need to be invited to the dance if they haven’t bought tickets to the dance, but Rolex and Patek don’t wanna dance, so they politely decline to go to the dance, etc etc etc. We can leave this as a topic for another day. But, to wit, some of the winners in 2020 struck me as eyebrow-raising, and some straight-out dubious – this is increasingly an age of transparency and it would be fair to say that the GPHG remains cloaked in more than a reasonable amount of secrecy. Here are three winners that had me running a gamut…
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