Report: Toronto Timepiece Show And Timepiece World Awards 2025
Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting the Toronto Timepiece Show. I was also a jury member for the Timepiece World Awards, so I had some formalities to attend to. But more about that later; let’s talk about the show first.
Toronto Timepiece Show organizer Jason Hutton (right) — Image: @furrywristabroad
Toronto Timepiece Show
Over 75 watch brands exhibited at the Toronto Timepiece Show, bringing a wonderful mixture of Swiss big brands and microbrands from across the world. This was the second time the Toronto Timpiece Show took place, and this time, it was in a much larger venue than the first edition.
Meridian Arts Center — Image: @furrywristabroad
Located in Toronto’s North York area, the Meridian Arts Center offered a spacious two-floor location to host all 75 watch brands and a large conference room for the Timepiece World Awards on Saturday evening.
Breitling was present with a large booth — Image: @furrywristabroad
Big brands, such as Breitling, Oris, Tissot, and Longines, were present, as well as other well-known smaller brands, like Formex, Hanhart, Doxa, Fears, Christopher Ward, Nomos, Sinn, Straum, Isotope, Serica, and more. You can find a complete overview of participating brands here.
A packed show on Saturday
Although Friday evening was for those working in or connected to the watch industry, the show centered around watch enthusiasts and collectors. To visit the Toronto Timepiece Show, you needed to sign up for a ticket, but it was still free of charge. It’s an often-heard complaint that many events focus solely on retailers and media. For us, as media, that’s good for us, but it’s less interesting or, at least, less accessible for enthusiasts and collectors like you all.
It got really crowded on Saturday
A welcome show for collectors and enthusiasts
Exhibiting for collectors and enthusiasts is a slightly different game, of course, and it was great to see how genuine enthusiasm was present on both sides of the table(s). I spoke to many brand representatives, sometimes directly from the brands, and other brands had local representatives from Canada and the USA. Without exception, they all loved to interact directly with the audience. I also noticed that visitors at the Toronto Timepiece Show were incredibly happy to be able to see and try the watches in real life.
One of the visitors with a beautiful Heuer Carrera
These “touch & try” sessions for media typically take place in booths at Watches and Wonders in Geneva. In such an environment, there’s no form of daylight, and we typically handle the watches with gloves.
But that was not the case at the Toronto Timepiece Show, where the visitors could try the watches that were on the tables and trays. Some of the exhibiting brands usually only sell their watches online, so it was a welcome possibility for many to try some of the watches they’ve only seen in pictures.
Team Oris — Image: @furrywristabroad
The good atmosphere and the community spirit made it extremely fun. I feel lucky to have finally met some people I have only known through online communication, Instagram, or our comment section on Fratello. Of course, I was also happy to see some familiar faces that have been in the community for years or even decades.
Someone brought his Speedmaster Mark V — Image: @furrywristabroad
The show’s photographer with his Speedmaster X-33 Solar Impulse — Image: @furrywristabroad
One of the visitors with his Vacheron Constantin Overseas
Ressence in the house! — Image: @furrywristabroad
This is just showing off. What a wonderful selection of watches! — Image: @furrywristabroad
Queen of Doxa is happy to win in the GMT category — Image: @furrywristabroad
Timpiece World Awards
This second edition of the Toronto Timepiece Show was a well-attended event, with approximately 4,600 people on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday evening was reserved for the Timepiece World Awards, for which I was one of the jury members. The jury consisted of seven members — Kathleen McGivney (CEO of RedBar Group), Justin Mastine-Frost (Sharp Magazine), Bradley Taylor (watchmaker), Alexandre Beauregard (Founder of Beauregard Watches), Elizabeth Doerr (author and writer for several media titles), James Stacey (Hodinkee), and me. In 11 categories, we had to rank six watches nominated in a pre-selection. And during the evening, we had to announce the winners in each category. I didn’t know this beforehand, but Colin Mochrie (of Whose Line Is It Anyway?) hosted the show on stage.
Mr. Isotope — Image @furrywristabroad
The winners for the 2025 Timepiece World Awards are listed below:
- Isotope Watches Mercury Shadow (Time Only category)
- Angelus Chronographe Télèmètre (Chronograph category)
- Oris Aquis Great Barrier Reef IV Limited Edition (Sports category)
- Doxa Sub 250T GMT Professional (GMT / Worldtime category)
- Marathon Adanac SSNAV-D Pilot’s Automatic (Toolwatch category)
- Fears Brunswick 40.5 Jump Hour “Edwardian Edition” (Innovative Complication category)
- GoS Fullerö Sword – Midnight Blue (Exceptional Materials category)
- Awake Sơn Mài – Frosted Leaf – Green (Jewellery and Artistic Craft category)
- Studio Underd0g The 02Series Gimlet (02GIG) (Foundation category)
- Kudoke 3 Flakes Gold (Exception category)
- Vianney Halter Art Deco Metropolis (Pinnacle category)
Furthermore, there was a People’s Choice award, for which the Toronto Timepiece Show 2025 visitors could select from all participants. It was a tie between the Isotope Moonshot and Christopher Ward C12 Loco. You can find more information on the Timpiece World Awards here.
At the Timepiece Awards Show evening with Alex Sauret, Sinziana Iordache, Chris Antzoulis, Anna Kubaski, and me — Image: @furrywristabroad
Jason Hutton, the event organizer, informed us that the Toronto Timepiece Show 2026 has already been booked for September 25th–27th.
*The header image is of Thibaut from Awake and was taken by @furrywristabroad.
