Lovers of vintage, racing inspired Heuer watches were given a long awaited treat with the revived Heuer Autavia. A brand icon given a modern reworking, while still historically faithful, makes a welcome return and a fair shot at GPHG honours.

They do say if you're going to make an entrance, you should make it one to remember, so with a debut like the Singer Track 1, new high end watch brand Singer Reimagined have lobbed a real curveball among the contenders for this important award.

Sitting in between futuristic innovation and the vintage inspired, Parmigiani Fleurier's Tonda Chronor Anniversaire is a contemporary and luxurious take on the split second chronograph, and marks the company's twentieth year with a sophisticated and beautifully architected in house movement.

Brimming over with old-time detail and beautiful finishing, the Montblanc 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter Limited Edition 100 brings an authentic vintage style and the charms of a bygone era of watchmaking to the GPHG in Geneva.

For Longines with the timeless Avigation BigEye chronograph, modern vintage cannot get much more authentic than a reissue of a 1930s classic, lifted straight out of their own museum. Do its handsome period pilot aesthetics and accessible everyman affordability give it an advantage in the contest?

The 2017 GPHG Chronograph category has seen this most popular complication reimagined beyond recognition not once, but twice, to set up an intriguing potential face-off between two very different brands, but which clearly share the same extraordinary DNA.