GREUBEL FORSEY Quantième Perpétuel à Équation walksaway withthe ‘Watch of the Year 2015’award at the sixth‘Watch World Awards’

 India’s most respected publication in the field of horology, Watch World, from the Chitralekha Group, hosted thesixth edition ofits pioneering event–The Watch World Awards 2015at The Westin, Gurgaon. In presence of luminary guests from different walks of the society, the awards nite witnessedreputed watch brands winning commendations across 10 product and 7 market categories. Theentries were judged by acclaimed panellists including Antoine Simonin, ApoorvaLakhia, RaghavendraRathore, Adhiraj Singh&Nitish Tipnis

 The jury unanimously selected GREUBEL FORSEY’sQuantième Perpétuel à Équation asthe winner of ‘Watch of the Year 2015’.

The galaevent saw the coming together of world’s leading watch brands and master watchmakers creating a larger-than-life platform of the horology ecosphere. Hosted by Chitralekha’s President, Publisher, and creator of Watch World Awards, Mitrajit Bhattacharya,the evening was concluded with jurists awarding entries in two different categories – Marketing Awards and Product Awards.

The event hostedtop-notch watch brands likeGREUBEL FORSEY,  BULGARI, IWC, ROGER DUBUIS, CORUM, BREITLING, SEIKO, HYT, CITIZEN, ZENITH, PARMIGIANI FLEURIER, HUBLOT, TITAN amongst others vying for the awards. The winners in the Marketing categories included TITAN Raga,picking up the award for ‘Best Marketing Campaigns on Television’.

 SEIKO, Lulu Mall, Cochin picked the ‘Best Boutique’ award, whileTITAN Raga and IWC Portofino Midsize watch launch received the ‘Best Integrated Marketing Campaign’ Award. HUBLOT ICC World Cup Association bagged the ‘Best-Organised Event’ and ‘Best use of Ambient Media’awardswhile TITAN’s ‘TITAN Gift of Time’ campaign was awarded the‘Best use of Social Media’ award.

In the product category GREUBEL FORSEY Quantième Perpétuel à Équation won ‘Watch of the Year 2015’ andalso the ‘BestComplicated Watch’ awards. CORUM Admiral’s Cup AC-One 45 Tides(Red) went way with the ‘Sports Watch of the Year’ award. HYT Skull was selected for the ‘Watch with Best Design’ award, BREITLING B55 Connected won the ‘BestConcept Watch of the Year’ award and PARMIGIANI FLEURIER Bugatti 370 Victoire bagged the‘BestLimited Edition Watch of the Year’ award.

 ‘Jewellery Watch of the Year’ award went to BULGARI Diva while the ‘Best Fashion Watch’award was bagged byHUBLOT Big Bang Broderie.ROGER DUBUIS Excalibur Spider Skeleton Flying Tourbillon in Titaniumwas conferred with the ‘Watch with Most Innovative Material’ award while ‘Watch with Highest Utility’ award was presented to CITIZEN Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F900. ZENITH Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage II was honoured with the ‘Watch with Artistic Excellence’ award.

Thesixth edition of the Watch World Awards was celebrated in the presence of the who-is-who of politics along with industrialists, bureaucrats, lawyers, corporate honchos and also an enviable line-up of film celebrities like Bollywood actor Yami Gautam,Nimrat Kaur and Pallavi Sharda amongst others. The Awards also featured a high-octane entertainment frills including a bone-tickling comic act by Delhi-based stand-up comedian, Vasu Primlani.

Mitrajit Bhattacharya, President & Publisher, Chitralekha Group & Creator of Watch World Awards says, “With each edition, the awards have been able to touch the right chord with the watch brands and watch aficionados across the world. Watch World Awards has attained the stature of beingone of world’s most coveted awardon horology with its six editions till date. The participation from the world’s top watch brands is a testament of our success over the years.  As always, we came up with an incredible jury team hailing from watchmaking, design, sports, collaborative art, marketing,to celebrate the art and science of watchmaking.”

 An excited Stephen Forsey on winning the coveted Watch World Watch of the Year 2015, said, “The entire Greubel Forsey team and I at La Chaux-de-Fonds are delighted that the esteemed jury of the Watch World Awards recognised and rewarded our hard work and the time spent on R&D to develop a special timepiece like the Quantième Perpétuel à Équation. It goes to show that collaboration between specialists and dedicated craftsmen come together to exhibit and pursue true sense of discovery in pushing the frontiers of traditional watchmaking to the future”

 About Chitralekha Group

Publisher of ‘Chitralekha’, and ‘Watch World’, the Chitralekha Group of Publications, it also publishes five other titles encompassing various genres of readership. Chitralekha Gujarati is the Group’s flagship weekly magazine and has completed 64 years of unparalleled leadership catering to the largest, arguably the most affluent and the most conspicuously consuming community in India, the Gujaratis.