Rolex Awards, a series of records (2011)

BRANDS LIFE COMMUNICATION EVENTS & PEOPLE

15 Jul, 13:18

Temps de lecture : < 1 minute

{Published on July 15, 2011} In late 2012, the winners will be revealed at a special ceremony and on the Rolex Award website. Already, in September 2011, the members of the Jury will be revealed. Among them will be scientists, explorers and environmental specialists who will be called upon to decide on the most entries ever. “It is exciting to see so many people formulating projects to improve life on our planet,” says Rebecca Irvin, Director of the Rolex Institute, a structure associated with governance and not with marketing or sponsorship. This is patronage in the noble sense of the word, in the sense that the old watchmaking families used to practice it, sometimes in the secrecy of their networks. In the program, 20% more files come from developing countries, proof that the relaxation of the application process has also borne fruit in these regions of the world. It will therefore be a question of renewable energy, safeguarding biodiversity and environmental awareness. From the youngest candidate at 8 years old to the oldest at 95 years old, all of them are hoping for their share of responsible notoriety and the financial incentive that goes with it.

✍ Joel A. Grandjean

Chief editor & publisher of the international watch magazine "Swiss Watch Passport® (by JSH®)" and of the Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie JSH® (the oldest Swiss Watch Journal founded in 1876). Member of Impressum, PressTourim and Club Suisse de la Presse, this Ivory Coast-born Swiss, descendant of a family of watchmakers, co-founded the magazines Montres Passion & Uhren Welt at Ringier in 1993 with Kenan Tegin, as well as the Prix Montre de l'Année. Founded in 2005, his press agency 1876 News (formerly TàG Press +41T) contributes to some twenty media through a network of around ten journalists or experts. These include Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (2008-2014), Heure Suisse/Schweiz and Année Horlogère, F/D/E (2011-2014), Watchonista.com (2013-2019). In 2019, he founded and chaired "JSH Archives & Patrimoine" to relaunch the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. Then in 2021, he built on his very first editorial venture, the "bloghorloger.ch" established on the web in 2003, to come back online with the Swiss Watch Passport® (by JSH®). Joël A. Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Gaïa, aka the "Nobel of watchmaking" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Musée International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds

Recents posts