The American version of GMT XXL is about to complete its third spin around the annual calendar, and we must thank all the people who appreciate a different way of reading the time and have encouraged us in our approach in terms of both the quality of presentations and the XXL format.

Details take on their full significance here and Haute Horlogerie and Haute Joaillerie are highlighted with the meticulous care they desire; the work of the artisans of the infinitely small may be admired without restraint; the love of aesthetic refinement is not disappointed by inferior quality; respect for the efforts undertaken throughout a creative chain extends onto the glossy paper which may itself become a collector's object, just like the incredible timepieces it reflects.

Once again, the symbolic figure 24 represents the ideal number of high-end brands whose astonishing new introductions we have sought to present through the hundred or so pages of this yearend issue. All the major watch groups have testified their confidence in our quest for the sublime, as indeed have numerous independent brands as well as several creative talents that prefer to excel in their own craftsman's definition of Haute Horlogerie and accordingly produce only a few hundred or a few dozen watches per year. This prestigious “digest” provides a wide variety of pleasures by illustrating the tremendous wealth of human creativity when it is placed in the service of luxury jewellery and watchmaking

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