
GPHG AWARD WINNING
Massena LAB is incredibly proud to have been awarded the Chronograph Watch Prize at the 2024 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, sharing the award with Sylvain Pinaud for the Chronograph Monopoussoir Sylvain Pinaud x Massena LAB.
2024's competition included 90 nominated watches, which were divided between fifteen 15 competitive categories. The nominated watches are voted upon by members of the GPHG Academy, and organization of 980 members including experts, collectors, industry professionals, and enthusiasts from around the world.

SYLVAIN PINAUD
Born in France into a family of clockmakers, Sylvain Pinaud grew up almost next to his father’s workbench, fascinated by the work of a watchmaker. Later, after studying watchmaking at the École d’Horlogerie de Marteau in France, Pinaud moved to Switzerland where he is now based in Sainte-Croix.
Before breaking out on his own, Pinaud worked at Frank Muller for several years before leaving Geneva to work for a famous clock restorer near Sainte-Croix. At the same time, Pinaud was also working for Techniques Horlogères Appliquées, the company that was founded, in part, by François-Paul Journe. Later, Pinaud worked in the prototyping department for Carl F. Bucherer, imagining new complications and devices for the brand.
In 2019, Pinaud was the winner of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France and, in 2022, he was awarded the “Horological Revelation” Prize at that year’s GPHG (Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève) for his watch, the Origine.
Pinaud is a current candidate to join the Académie Horlogère de Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI).
Movement
• Manual-winding, fully-integrated single pusher column-wheel chronograph with horizontal clutch by Sylvain Pinaud.
• Hand-finished to the highest degree by the watchmaker in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland.
• 18,000 half oscillations per hour (2.5 Hz) with approximately 45 hours of power reserve.
• Hand-finished chronograph left exposed on the dial.
Limited Edition
• Limited to ten pieces.
• Production limited to three pieces per year.
• Made in Switzerland.

Dial
• Manufactured by Comblémine SA, the dial maker owned by independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen.
• Hand-frosted, hand-beveled plate.
• Subdial at 12 o’clock displays hours and minutes. Frosted inner sector with a beveled edge. Circular graining of the hours and minutes sector track. All hand finishing.
• Forty-five-minute counter at 3 o’clock. Small seconds at 9 o’clock.
• Blued steel chronograph and counter hands are distinguishable from the hour, minute, and second hands.
Case
• Titanium. Polished bezel with grained lugs.
• Diameter: 42mm. Thickness: 11mm.
• Sapphire crystal windows on case sides allow for the dial, and its chronograph movement, to be viewed from additional angles.
• Water resistance of 30 meters.
• Lug width: 20mm.
Warranty
• Two-year guarantee.
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