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by Ian Skellern

Welcome to the inaugural Quill & Pad Baselworld “awards,” in which we highlight a few of the watches and goings-on that caught our eyes at the world’s largest watch exhibition. Please accept these citations in the way they are presented: at times tongue-in-cheek, at times serious, always fun!

Please note that this list is based simply on what we saw and photographed; it isn’t exhaustive and we are sure that there are many great (and not-so-great) watches we missed that may have merited inclusion here. To those brands we apologize.

So without further ado, here’s what caught our eyes at Baselworld 2014 in no particular order.

Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon (5mm high case)

Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon (5 mm high case)

Best ultra-thin timepiece: Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon with a movement only 1.95 mm and a case only 5 mm high

Louis Moinet “Compteur de tierces” style USB key

Louis Moinet “Compteur de tierces” style USB key

Best USB key press kit: hands down the Louis Moinet “Compteur de tierces”

Zenith Pilot Type 20 Grand Feu 60 mm diameter (right) beside a 42mm Zenit (left)

Zenith Pilot Type 20 Grand Feu 60 mm diameter (right) beside a 42 mm Zenith (left)

Largest wristwatch: Zenith Pilot Type 20 Grand Feu, which measures 60 mm in diameter

atek Philippe Reference 5270 chronograph with perpetual calendar

Patek Philippe Reference 5270 chronograph with perpetual calendar

Best chronograph 1: Patek Philippe Reference 5270 chronograph with perpetual calendar

De Bethune DB29 Maxi Chrono Tourbillon

De Bethune DB29 Maxi Chrono Tourbillon

Best chronograph 2: De Bethune Maxi Chrono Tourbillon

For more on the Maxi Chrono, please click Two Very Different Chronographs Launch At Baselworld: Glashütte Original And De Bethune

Glashütte Original PanoMaticInverse XL

Glashütte Original PanoMaticInverse XL

Glashütte Original PanoMaticInverse XL

Best practically invisible evolution of an existing model: Glashütte Original’s PanoMaticInverse XL – just as visually aesthetic, but now automatic

Hermès Arceau Millefiori with artisanal crystal dial by Cristalleries Royales de Saint-Louis

Hermès Arceau Millefiori with artisanal crystal dial by Cristalleries Royales de Saint-Louis

Best artistic dial 1: Hermès Arceau Millefiori

For more on the Arceau Millefiori, please click Hermès Presents Seriously Playful Springtime Watches At Baselworld 2014

Green enamel over hand guilloche with diamond-set bezel by Delaneau

Green enamel over hand guilloche with diamond-set bezel on the Rondo Translucent by Delaneau

Best artistic dial 2: This stunning green enamel over guilloche dial on the Rondo Translucent by Delaneau (though anything by Delaneau is worth a photo)

Nomos movement with in-house “Swing System” escapement

Nomos movement with in-house “Swing System” escapement

Tip of the hat: Nomos for declaring its independence by making escapements in-house using traditional materials in its new “Swing System”

Baselworld is easier in comfortable shoes

Baselworld is much easier to navigate in comfortable shoes

Best shoes: Quill & Pad Converse

Sauterelle à la lune perpétuelle by Andreas Strehler: the moon phase is accurate to 14,189 years (give or take a few seconds)

Best moon phase: Andreas Strehler’s Sauterelle à la lune perpetual, which is accurate to a full day for 14,189 years

Corum Admirals Cup Tides

Corum Admiral’s Cup AC-One Tides

Best Nautical Watch: Corum Admiral’s Cup AC-One Tides

Corum Single Golden Bridge Dragon

Corum Golden Bridge Dragon

Best dragon: Corum Golden Bridge Dragon, a watch you can never get sick of despite an overabundance of dragons of late

Ulysse Nardin

Ulysse Nardin’s Ulysse Anchor Escapement

Best new escapement: Ulysse Nardin’s Ulysse Anchor Escapement

Girard-Perregaux Tri-Axial Tourbillon

Girard-Perregaux Tri-Axial Tourbillon

Best multi-axis tourbillon: Girard-Perregaux Tri-AxialTourbillon

Margot in white gold by Christophe Claret

Margot in white gold by Christophe Claret

Best ladies’ complication: Christophe Claret Margot

For more about Margot (including video), click Christophe Claret In Bloom: Introducing Margot, His First Ladies Watch

Loup Systems: The world's best loups bar none

Loupe System: the world’s best loupes, bar none

Best loupe: Loupe System

Thomas Mercer marine clock

Thomas Mercer marine clock

Best marine clock: Thomas Mercer

The Hodikee team visiting the Ressence stand at Baselworld

The Hodinkee team visiting the Ressence stand at Baselworld

Most numerous blog team in attendance: Hodinkee with four members

Visitors to Satler admiring the long clock

Visitors to Sattler’s booth admiring the three-meter-high clock

Biggest clock: Erwin Sattler’s Maxima Secunda, which stands three meters/10 feet tall

The MCT Sequential Two S200

The MCT Sequential Two S200

Welcome back 1: MCT with Sequential Two S200

Rolex GMT Master II Pepsi

Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II “Pepsi”

Welcome back 2: Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II, otherwise known as the “Pepsi”

Jaquet Droz Bird Minute Repeater

Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater

Best Jaquemart: Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater

The Ressence Type 1

The Ressence Type 1

Best “Look, Ma, no hands!”: Ressence Type 1

Model of a Breguet silicon escapement

Model of a Breguet silicon escapement

Best new “mainstream” technology: silicon escapements in evidence by brands as diverse as Breguet, Rolex, Blancpain, Jaquet Droz, H. Moser & Cie and many others

New Hautlence ambassador Eric Cantona looking at the Hautlence collection

New Hautlence ambassador Eric Cantona looking at the brand’s collection

Best use of color on an existing model and coolest new ambassador: Hautlence with the HLRQ04 model and Eric Cantona

Grönefeld Parallax Tourbillon

Grönefeld Parallax Tourbillon

Most innovative tourbillon: Grönefeld Parallax Tourbillon

Lume shot of Stepan Sarpaneva's Korona Moonshine

Lume shot of Stepan Sarpaneva’s Korona Moonshine

Best moon depiction (and best lume): Stepan Sarpaneva’s Korona Moonshine

For more on Stepan Sarpaneva, please click Stepan Sarpaneva’s Man In The Moon

Romain Gauthier Logical one Secret

Romain Gauthier Logical One Secret

Most eye-catching high complication: Romain Gauthier Logical One Secret

Kari Voutilainen 2-Eight with custom maki-e dial

Kari Voutilainen 2-Eight with custom maki-e dial

Best maki-e dial: Kari Voutilanen’s 2-Eight

Just a few of the new models presented by Speake-Marin at Baselworld 2014

Just a few of the new models presented by Speake-Marin at Baselworld 2014

Most prolific assortment of incredible new watches: Speake-Marin

For more photos of new models by Speake-Marin, please click First Live Photos Of New Speake-Marin Watches Pre-Baselworld 2014

Blancpain 12-day Tourbillon

Blancpain 12-Day Flying Tourbillon

Longest power reserve with one spring barrel: Blancpain 12-Day Flying Tourbillon

Chopard Mille Miglia

Chopard Mille Miglia

Best evolution of an existing model: Chopard Mille Miglia, which celebrates Karl-Friedrich Scheufele’s 25th participation as a driver in the famed Italian classic car rally of the same name

Bremont MBIII

Bremont MBIII

Most eagerly awaited timepiece: the Bremont Martin-Baker III, which didn’t disappoint!

For more on the Bremont Martin-Baker III, please click Bremont Introduces Much-Awaited Third Martin-Baker Watch

Armin Strom Racing Gravity Automatic

Armin Strom Racing Gravity Automatic

Most innovative inclusion of Formula 1 technology in a wristwatch: Armin Strom’s Racing Gravity

Antoine Martin Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar and a bottle of white wine from the Epesses region of Switzerland (near Lausanne)

Antoine Martin Tourbillon Astronomique and a bottle of white wine from the Epesses region of Switzerland (near Lausanne)

Best watch and wine combination: Antoine Martin Tourbillon Astronomique with a bottle of Epesses wine served chilled at the booth

Shinola watches now come with a lifetime warranty

Shinola watches now come with a lifetime guarantee

Most unexpected announcement: Shinola’s lifetime guarantee on all watches – quartz, mind you

Lang & Heyne Augustus 1

Lang & Heyne Augustus 1

Best iCalendar replacement: Lang & Heyne Augustus I, which stores several dates

For more on Lang & Heyne and the Augustus, please click Lang & Heyne’s Marco Lang Heads New Watch Group

Cufflinks featuring a copy of the Greubel Forsey GMT planet (not by Greubel Forsey)

Cufflinks containing a copy of the 3D planet of the Greubel Forsey GMT (not by Greubel Forsey)

Coolest cufflinks: a Greubel Forsey fan had these cufflinks made with a little three-dimensional earth like that on the Greubel Forsey GMT

Vianney Halter reading the Baselworld Daily News wearing his Deep Space tourbillon

Vianney Halter reading the Baselworld Daily News wearing his Deep Space Tourbillon

Coolest watch worn while reading the Baselworld Daily News: Deep Space Tourbillon worn by Vianney Halter

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  1. Oliver
    Oliver says:
    April 7, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    You missed the new A.Manzoni & Fils chrono

    Reply

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