{"id":36884,"date":"2025-09-15T21:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/prix-gaia-2025-les-nobel-de-lhorlogerie-sont-attribues-a\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:50:16","slug":"the-2025-gaia-awards-aka-watchmakings-nobel-prizes-are-given-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/the-2025-gaia-awards-aka-watchmakings-nobel-prizes-are-given-to\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Ga\u00efa Awards, aka “Watchmaking’s Nobel Prizes” are given to…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award ceremony on September 18, at the <\/b>MIH<\/b><\/a> in La Chaux-de-Fonds: the Ga\u00efa Prize jury nominates Roger W. Smith, Helmut Crott, and Jean-Jacques Paolini in the categories \u201cCraftsmanship, Creation<\/i>,\u201d \u201cHistory, Research<\/i>,\u201d and \u201cEntrepreneurship<\/i>,\u201d respectively.<\/b><\/p>\n

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How to get to the MIH, the Mus\u00e9e International d’Horlogerie<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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The 2025 Ga\u00efa Prize jury has delivered its verdict. Three new winners complete the impressive list of recipients<\/a> of this prize often described as the Nobel Prize of the watchmaking world.<\/p>\n

Ga\u00efa 2025: the laureates are revealed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unique Prix Ga\u00efa honours the very best: those contributing to the reputation of watchmaking, its history, its technology or its industry. An institution of global renown, the Mus\u00e9e international d’horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds \u2013 a city whose economic and social history is closely linked to watchmaking \u2013 awards this prize in recognition of the spiritual heirs of watchmaking culture embodied in the museum’s collections, and in the city itself.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Roger W. Smith<\/strong> – winner in the Craftsmanship – Creation category: for his unwavering commitment to craftsmanship in watchmaking and for his role as an ambassador for the independent British watchmaking tradition.<\/p>\n

Helmut Crott<\/strong> – winner in the History – Research category: for his meticulous research combining archive sources and oral testimony with his encyclopaedic knowledge of watchmaking history to benefit the watch collectors\u2019 market.<\/p>\n

Jean-Jacques Paolini<\/strong> – winner in the Entrepreneurship category: for his exemplary career from a small family company to a major watch group, and as a visionary who adapted Lean manufacturing for the watchmaking world, enabling it to maintain competitiveness whilst upholding Swiss industrial excellence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Roger W. Smith, Ga\u00efa 2025, Cat\u00e9gorie Artisanat, Cr\u00e9ation<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. Helmut Crott, Ga\u00efa 2025, cat\u00e9gorie Histoire, Recherche (\u00a9photo A Collected Man)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jean-Jacques Paolini, Ga\u00efa 2025, Cat\u00e9gorie Esprit d'entreprise<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The visual for the 2025 Ga\u00efa Prize in the EPHJ edition of the Swiss Watchmaking Journal JSH<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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