Jury
President
Aurel Bacs
Expert in collector's watches, co-founder and partner with Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo
Members
Pierre Amstutz
Director of the Ecole d'horlogerie de Genève
Denis Asch
Watchmaker, expert, consultant and collector
René Beyer
Co-owner and CEO of Beyer Chronometrie AG
Vincent Calabrese
Watchmaker
Isabelle Chillier
CEO of Fiedler
Marie de Pimodan
Freelance journalist
Philippe Dufour
Watchmaker
Alexandre Favez
Expert, watchmaking consultant and violonist
Alexander Friedman
Co-founder of Watchonista and collector
Eric Giroud
Watch designer
Denis Hayoun
Photographer, founder of studio Diode
Georges Humard
Owner and CEO of Humard Automation
Brice Lechevalier
Editor-in-chief of GMT and collector
Jean-Noël Lefèvre
CEO of Vaucher Manufacture
Hubert Lorenz
President of Mimotec
Fabienne Lupo
Ex-president of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie
Jean-Michel Piguet
President of Chronométrophilia
Gianfranco Ritschel
Consultant and trainer in watchmaking
Pierre Salanitro
CEO of Salanitro
Elisabeth Saulcy
Co-CEO of STS Saulcy Traitement de Surface
Pierre-André Schmitt,
Editor-in-chief of Watch Around
Guy Sémon
Physicist and designer of high-precision watches
Caroline Spir
Editor-in-chief of l'Agefi Life
Ignaz Steg
Director of Les Ambassadeurs Geneva
Antonio Teixeira
Director of Bucherer Geneva
Valérie Ursenbacher
Watch designer, manager of the chair in watch design at the HEAD-Geneva School
Patrick Wehrli,
Watch expert
Jean-Marc Wiederrecht
Watchmaker
François-Henry Bennahmias
CEO of Audemars Piguet, the brand that won the 2019 "Aiguille d'Or" Grand Prix, out of competition in 2020. By way of reminder: the brand that wins the "Aiguille d'Or" Grand Prix is automatically ineligible for the competition the following year, and its founder or CEO is invited to sit on the jury for one year.
Jury Commissioner
Régis Huguenin-Dumittan
Holder of a doctorate in history, curator-director of the MIH, Musée International d’Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds