Gaïa Prize, submissions requested until March 21!

14 Feb, 14:28

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The Gaïa Prize was instituted by the International Watchmaking Museum of La Chaux-de-Fonds (MIH) in 1993 to honour personalities who have contributed or are contributing to the prestige of watchmaking, its history, its technique and its industry. Unique of its kind, this prize has the particularity of rewarding the best of the best

Submissions Gaïa 2023

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Rules Gaïa Prize

Two jury members in 2017: Nicolas Rossé, TV journalist at RTS, the Swiss national television and Eric Tissot, dynasty descendant, Marketing & Communication Manager at Multiple SA Global Design

The jury is under the presidency of the curator of the International Museum of Horology, and is composed of the MIH management and various watch-related figures. The minimum number of members of the jury is 10 and the maximum number of members is 15.

The rules of the Award as well as the list of former laureates can be found at https://www.chaux-de-fonds.ch/en/musees/mih/prix-gaia or can be requested from the secretariat of the Musée international d’horlogerie, tel. +41(0)32 967 68 61, info@mih.ch

The ceremony for the 29th Gaïa Prize will take place on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at the MIH, in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Applications must be sent by March 21, 2023 to

Gaia Prize
International Watchmaking Museum (MIH)
Rue des Musées 29
CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse

Prix Gaïa (Official)

2022 Gaïa’s Jury

Brillant orateur et historien, Régis Huguenin-Dumittan, conservateur-directeur du Musée international d'horlogerie (MIH) et président du Jury Gaïa. Une récompense suprême surnommée déjà en 2009 par le bloghorloger.ch, le "Nobel de l'Horlogerie".

Brilliant orator and historian, Régis Huguenin-Dumittan, curator-director of the International Watchmaking Museum (MIH) and president of the Gaia Jury. Already in 2009, the bloghorloger.ch dubbed this supreme award the "Nobel Prize of Watchmaking".

Asha Shaniah Gibson

As Swiss Watch Passport's translation supervisor, Shaniah Asha Gibson is the co-founding president of St-LuSwiss (a Swiss organisation for the promotion of the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia). She provides her non-profit organisation's translation services to Swiss Watch Passport magazine (by JSH) and to the public relations agency @TRP (Textes et Relations, Production).

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