The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève is a contest between high-end watch manufacturers at the Geneva

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 Watch Festival. The prize logo is used by watch manufacturers in their advertising. There is some debate as to the legitimacy of the contest, because many of the judges are journalists for magazines that receive advertising from the watch manufacturers participating in the contest. The official website for the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie is hosted at a commercial watch site used for advertising brands, and the participants in the contest are listed as Partner Brands, who pay for inclusion on the web site.

Recent contest judges for 2008 were:

• Aurel Bacs, international director of Christies watch department, Geneva
• Gillian de Bono, editor-in-chief of How To Spend It magazine supplement of the Financial Times
  Financial Times
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  , London
• Norma Buchanan, journalist for WatchTime magazine, New York
• Dominique Fléchon, director of the Research and Survey Center, Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, Geneva
• Naomasa Furukawa, editor-in-chief of Chronos
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   magazine, Japan
• Wei Koh, editor-in-chief of Revolution
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   magazine, Singapore
• Miguel Seabra, journalist, editor of Espiral do Tempo magazine, Portugal
• Sabina Tchelnokova, Russian correspondent for My Watch, Robb Report
  Robb Report
  The Robb Report is an American, English-language, luxury-lifestyle magazine featuring products — including automobiles, real estate and watches — for affluent connoisseurs.-History:...
  
  , and Cosmopolitan
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   magazines, Geneva
• Sebastian Whitestone, director of Bobinet, London
• Eugenio Zigliotto, journalist, editor-in-chief of the seven international editions of Orologi da Polso magazine, Italy

The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève also has international representation in the form of Ambassadors.

USA: Mr Christophe Maincourt, Mr Luis Peyrelongue, Mr Pascal O. Ravessoud
Canada: Steven Kaiser
Hong Kong, Taiwan and China: Francis Gouten
Japan: Yutaka Nishimura
South East Asia: Mr Ban ONG, Bernard Cheong

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, Jeremy Lim, Michael Tay
Australia: Nicole Segundo
Europe: Nicolas de Quatrebarbes, Bernhard Sieber, Christian Hübner, Cyrille Vigneron
India: Anita Khatri
Middle East: Omar Chaoui, Mr Patrick Normand, Mr Abdul Hamied Seddiqi, Adel ALI bin ALI