Watch: Aristo Sham performs Mendelssohn G minor Concerto (No. 1) at the 2025 Van Cliburn finals The 29-year-old is from Hong Kong, China. This is the first of his two final round performances.

But the Aristo wasn’t the first stopwatch featured on the show. The first watch, a Minerva, made its debut on the show’s third episode, which aired Oct. 22, 1968.