2025 Timepiece World Awards Finalists

1.10.01 - Time Only: watches with only two or three hands, bearing exclusively analogue time indications: hours, minutes, seconds. Sub/small seconds function is also acceptable in this category.
1.10.02 - Chronograph: mechanical watches comprising at least one chronograph indication.  Additional indications and/or complications are admissible.
1.10.03 - Sports: watches linked to the world of sport, whose functions, materials and design are suited to physical exercise.
1.10.04 - GMT/Worldtime Watches: watches that display hours, minutes, seconds and have the ability to show time in another time zone or multiple time zones through mechanical function. A 12 hour rotating bezel does not qualify for this category.
1.10.05 - Tool Watches: watches designed to be utilized within a specific profession or provide timekeeping within more extreme or challenging environments and professional roles. This may include fields but not limited to military and law enforcement professions, diving, emergency services, aviation, medicine and any challenging environments where a timepiece can support their wearers respective role.
1.10.06 -  Innovative Complication: watches that are remarkable in terms of their mechanical creativity and complexity. These watches may feature all kinds of classic and/or innovative complications and indications. Watches may exhibit a combination of novel or remarkable mechanical construction as well as innovative means of display and measurement of time within the overall design of the timepiece.  This may also include a striking or any other acoustic function, a special or novel escapement, novel driven movements or comprising another original and/or exceptional horological concept.
1.10.07 - Exceptional Materials: watches utilizing novel or innovative usage of materials in their overall design and construction of the watch. This may include commonly used materials presented or finished in a unique manner or novel materials not commonly seen in timepiece construction and design.
1.10.08 - Jewellery and Artistic Craft: watches demonstrating exceptional mastery of the art of jewellery and gem setting including the choice of stones. Timepieces may also include within the design creative execution of enamelling, skeletonization work, enamelling, lacquering engraving and guilloché.
1.10.09 - Foundation: watches with a retail price equal to or under $2,500 US dollars or equivalent.
‍1.10.10 - Exception: watches with a retail price between $2,501 USD and 15,000 USD or equivalent.
‍1.10.11 - Pinnacle: watches with a retail price of $15,000 USD or equivalent and upwards.