Golden balance

The venue of the XIV Award Ceremony 2013

The current version of the trophy awarded for the first place in the five prize categories.

The gold medal technique is awarded by the watch magazine editorial team.

The golden balance is one of the most famous German-language awards for new watch models and is awarded annually on the last Thursday in February.

History and election mode

The award goes back to a first reader vote in the magazine Uhren-Magazin in 1990. In 1998 it took place for the first time under the name Goldene Unruh. The election has been held annually since 2000. In 2001 the election was supplemented by online voting in cooperation with Focus -online . Since 2005, coordination has been carried out in complementary cooperation with the news magazine Focus . The preselection appears in the November issue of the watch magazine. From these candidates nominated by the watch manufacturers, the readers use consecutively numbered voting cards to choose the most popular watches in the five price categories. Since 2014, this preselection has also been accompanied online by watchtime . The ten best models for each category are shortlisted . From December to January, registered users vote among these nominees in a vote on Focus online for the “best watches in the world” (slogan of choice). Since 2007, the watch magazine editorial team has also been awarding a maximum of three technology prizes. In 2013 there was a change of mode: the gold medal technology was awarded to a single candidate for outstanding achievements in watch design. Both the medal and the trophy are specially made by the clock manufacturer Erwin Sattler . In the election for XX. Golden Unruh voted a total of 15 269 participants on the 310 submitted candidates.

The award and the winners

Until 2002, the award ceremony took place at the Inhorgenta trade fair in Munich . In 2003 and 2004 the award took place at the publishing location in Stuttgart . In 2005, the award ceremony in the Burda publishing house's photo studio returned to the event location in Munich. Then the ceremony joined in the annual cycle between the two metropolitan areas. In 2007 the recently reopened Mercedes-Benz Museum was chosen as the venue. In 2008, the ceremony in place Museum of Audi in Ingolstadt instead. In 2009, the newly opened Porsche Museum provided the festive framework. In 2010 the invited industry representatives met in the aircraft yard of the Deutsches Museum in Oberschleissheim . In 2011, the BMW Welt was the venue for the award ceremony. In contrast to the cycle, the 2012 award ceremony took place in the gold house of the Munich gold dealer Pro Aurum . The anniversary event for the award of the XV. The Golden Balance took place on March 14, 2014 in the BMW Museum in Munich . The XVI. Goldene Unruh 2014 chose the Rilano No.6 in the Bernheimer House in Munich as its location. The XVII. Goldene Unruh 2015 took place on February 26th in Holger Stromberg's Kutchiin . The award ceremony was carried out jointly by watch magazine editor-in-chief Thomas Wanka and Focus publisher Uli Baur . The XVIII. Goldene Unruh was moderated by Viola Weiss and the editors-in-chief Ulrich Reitz (Focus) and Thomas Wanka (Uhren-Magazin) and took place on February 25, 2016 in the Salon Bernheim in the Bernheim-Palais in Munich . The award of the XIX. Goldene Unruh was carried out by editors-in-chief Robert Schneider (Focus) and Thomas Wanka (Uhren-Magazin) with the support of Inhorgenta Munich on February 21, 2017 in the Munich art location Ketterer. On February 15, 2018, the award ceremony took place in the Munich Monacensia .

The 2018 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Marine Blue Limited Edition Durowe 7526-4, Stowa
up to 5,000 euros: Metro Neomatik 39 Silvercut, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Senator Excellence Panorama Date, Glashütte Original
up to 25,000 euros: Lambda 42 white gold, Nomos Glashütte
over 25,000 euros: Tourbograph Perpetual "Pour le Mérite", A. Lange & Sons
Gold medal technique: Defy Lab, Zenith

The 2017 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Tangomat, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Metro date power reserve, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Slimline Moonphase Perpetual, Frédérique Constant
up to 25,000 euros: Speedmaster Master Chronometer, Omega
over 25,000 euros: Senator Chronometer, Glashütte Original
Gold medal technique: LUC Full Strike, Chopard

The 2016 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Tangomat, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Metro date power reserve, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: reference caliber 99.5, D. Dornblüth & Sohn
up to 25,000 euros: Portuguese annual calendar, IWC
over 25,000 euros: Senator Cosmopolite, Glashütte Original
Gold medal technique: caliber 833P Altiplano Chronograph ( Piaget )

The 2015 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Tangomat, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Metro date, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Pano Reserve, Glashütte Original
up to 25,000 euros: Lambda white gold deep blue, Nomos Glashütte
over 25,000 euros: Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, IWC
Gold medal technique: Master Co-Axial Technologie (Omega)

The 2014 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Orion 38 gray date, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Teutonia II Chronograph, Mühle-Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Master Calendar, Jaeger-LeCoultre
up to 25,000 euros: 1815 Auf / Ab, A. Lange & Söhne
over 25,000 euros: 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar, A. Lange & Söhne
Gold medal technique: Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire ( Cartier )

The 2013 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Tangomat date, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Carrera Caliber 1887, TAG Heuer
up to 10,000 euros: Spitfire Chronograph, IWC
up to 25,000 euros: PanoMaticLunar, Glashütte Original
over 25,000 euros: Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar, A. Lange & Söhne
Gold medal technique: Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon (Glashütte Original)

The 2012 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Flieger Chrono, Stowa
up to 5,000 euros: Zurich World Time, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days, IWC
up to 25,000 euros: Finanzplatzuhr 6000 platinum, Sinn
over 25,000 euros: Portugieser Grande Complication, IWC
Special price technology: Reference 5208 ( Patek Philippe ), Microtimer Flying 1000 Concept Chronograph ( TAG Heuer )

The 2011 winners

up to 2,500 euros: Tangomat, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: Zurich date, Nomos Glashütte
up to 10,000 euros: Senator Sixties Panorama Date, Glashütte Original
up to 25,000 euros: Master Chronograph, Jaeger-LeCoultre
over 25,000 euros: Saxonia annual calendar, A. Lange & Söhne

The 2010 winners

up to 2,500 euros: 900 fliers, Sinn
up to 5,000 euros: Senator pointer date, Glashütte Original
up to 10,000 euros: 6100 Regulateur Rotgold, Sinn
up to 25,000 euros: La Tradition, Breguet SA
over 25,000 euros: Moser Perpetual 1, H. Moser & Cie. Heinrich Moser
Special price technology: Caliber CH 29-535 PS, (Patek Philippe)

The 2009 winners

up to 1,000 euros: Tangente, Nomos Glashütte
up to 5,000 euros: moon phase, Wempe Chronometerwerke
up to 10,000 euros: Vintage Portugieser, IWC
up to 25,000 euros: Memovox Polaris Jaeger-LeCoultre
over 25,000 euros: Portofino Vintage, IWC
Special price technology: Caliber CFB A1000 ( Carl F. Bucherer ), Constant escapement ( Girard-Perregaux ), El Primero 8800 "Zero-G" ( Zenith)

The 2008 winners

up to 1,000 euros: Pilot Chrono, Archimede
up to 5,000 euros: SNR 011J1, Spring Drive, Seiko
up to 10,000 euros: 6100 Regulateur Rotgold, Sinn
up to 25,000 euros: Saxonia Automatik, A. Lange & Söhne
over 25,000 euros: Lange 31, A. Lange & Söhne
Special price technology: caliber 89360, (IWC), caliber ML 128, ( Maurice Lacroix ), caliber 8500/8501, (Omega)

The 2007 winners

up to 1,000 euros: DS Podium Chrono, Certina
up to 5,000 euros: Chronoscope, Chronoswiss
up to 10,000 euros: Panomatic Venue, Glashütte Original
up to 25,000 euros: Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, IWC
over 25,000 euros: Tourbograph, A. Lange & Söhne
Special price technology: caliber LUC CF, ( Chopard ), caliber 137, ( Ebel ), caliber ML 106, (Maurice Lacroix)