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Beaubleu's La Pièce n°2 Silver Lands a 2026 GPHG Nomination in the Challenge Category
The French independent's Monnaie de Paris dial earns a Geneva shortlist spot, but the brand still withholds price and movement details.
Image: Beaubleu
La Pièce n°2 Silver from Beaubleu Paris has made the 2026 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève shortlist in the Challenge category. Beaubleu’s newsroom post calls it an “official” addition to the “prestigious list of nominees.” The Challenge category alone drew over 40 entries; the ceremony is November 7 in Geneva’s Bâtiment des Forces Motrices.
The distinction matters. Watchpro’s September 1 report confirms the GPHG Academy trimmed 320 submissions from 194 brands to 84 nominees. Worldtempus’s finalist list includes La Pièce n°2 in the Challenge category, meaning this is a nomination, not just an entry.
Beaubleu does detail the dial: a monobloc disc struck by the Monnaie de Paris, silver-hued, with a finely grooved radial pattern and a flying seconds hand. The brand calls the collaboration a world first for the mint, a claim that rests on Beaubleu alone. The case runs 39 mm with a domed sapphire crystal and an openworked back, and the movement is given only as a France Ebauches FE calibre made in France.
That is where the sheet ends. No caliber number, no power reserve, no water resistance, no price. Beaubleu notes only that Challenge covers watches at or below 4,500 CHF, which is the category’s ceiling, not this watch’s tag. Collectors will recognise the pattern: strong story, thin published spec.
| Reference | unknown (not stated on Beaubleu's page) |
| Price | unknown, Beaubleu's page does not publish a retail price for this watch. It does state that the GPHG Challenge category, in which the watch is entered, is defined as covering watches "with a retail price equal to or less than 4,500 CHF", a category threshold, not a disclosed price for this specific piece. |
| Released | not stated as a launch/availability date. The only calendar date given is the GPHG award ceremony, "November 7th," at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Geneva. The Beaubleu blog post itself carries no visible publish date in the retrieved text. |
Source: Beaubleu
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