{"id":13215,"date":"2022-01-20T03:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/gaia-2021-le-prix-des-prix-les-larmes-de-carole\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:05:01","slug":"gaia-2021-the-prize-of-the-prizes-caroles-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/gaia-2021-the-prize-of-the-prizes-caroles-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Ga\u00efa 2021: the Prize of the Prizes, Carole’s tears…"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unprecedented conjunction of coincidences brought a unique breath of bliss to the 2021 ceremony. Like an improbable planets alignment above the venerable MIH’s Hans Erni Hall, there were tinglings with wonders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean \/ JSH\u00ae Magazine<\/a> & Swiss Watch Passport Publisher & Editor in chief
\nJury member of the Ga\u00efa Award<\/em>
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Receiving a Ga\u00efa is like being awarded with a Nobel Prize. Those who have received it, promising discoveries or confirmed talents who have already won awards on other stages, are recognized by their peers for their work as a whole.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Ga\u00efa Prize 2022, deadline for submission of next applications: March 21, 2022, mih@ne.ch<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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\nApart from the emotional intensity that characterizes the award ceremonies, the 2021 session was an interlude of pure delight in the history of this distinction. First of all, the historian Catherine Cardinal<\/strong>, former curator of the International Watchmaking Museum, had travelled to La Chaux-de-Fonds from Paris. She was the one who, at the request of her director, founded this award in 1993 and it has since become an institution. Then, in the “Craftsmanship, Creation” category, it was Carole Forestier-Kasapi<\/strong> who won the palm. A premiere, the first woman to join the prestigious gallery of great contemporary watchmakers!<\/p>\n

Carole is a\u00a0watchmaker of distinction, endorsed by the entire profession.\u00a0Her speech, full of emotion and punctuated by moving tears, made everyone’s eyes shine. Finally, and this detail came back to me for having done personal research on the “last of the great orologeurs”, this exceptional laureate was the student of the Chaux de Fonds watchmaking professor Jean-Claude Nicolet \u271d\ufe0e<\/strong>, who was none other than the first to receive the Ga\u00efa as a watchmaker, just before Fran\u00e7ois-Paul Journe in 1994. All of a sudden, a kind of virtuous circle seemed to halo the evening. A propitious context for the laudatios dedicated to Anthony Turner and Eric Klein, respectively winner of the “History, Research” and “Entrepreneurship” awards.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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The speeches of the curator R\u00e9gis Huguennin-Dumittan, president of the Jury, are increasingly inspired: he invited Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maire, director of the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Suisse, for a \"seventh art\" speech full of watchmaking references and local temporalities...<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Applications for 2022<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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Ga\u00efa Official<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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Ga\u00efa Watch<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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JSH 1876, pp. 54-55<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u271d\ufe0e Jean-Claude Nicolet, 1st Ga\u00efa Prize in 1993, known as \" The last of the Great Orlogeurs \". He was Carole Forestier-Kasapi's professor, first woman to join the prestigious gallery of great contemporary watchmakers!<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The historian Catherine Cardinal, former curator of the Mus\u00e9e International de l'Horlogerie, established the Ga\u00efa Prize in 1993.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Born in 1993, year of Ga\u00efa's birth, Nathana\u00eblle Delachaux won the second \"Horizon Ga\u00efa\" scholarship<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>