The Apple Watch continues to win awards ahead of its launch later this month. After collecting gold at the 2015 iF Design Awards, it has now picked up a Red Dot: Best of the Best award from Germany’s Red Dot Award organization.
While 1,240 products won a Red Dot Award, only 81, including the Apple Watch, were honoured with the organization’s top award, the Red Dot: Best of the Best.
Professor Dr Peter Zec, Founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award: “Innovation is not always visible with the naked eye. Often it is hidden aspects, such as a refined technology inside the product or an improved combination of materials, that constitute a lucid and sometimes brilliant new development. We can therefore count ourselves lucky that year after year we are able to appoint an expert, experienced and high-profile jury that doesn’t miss a beat. All those who are successful before this jury have invested a lot of time and understanding into the product submitted. They are completely deserving of their reward, which permits them to use the globally recognised seal of good design.”
Only one other smartwatch won a Red Dot award. The Sony Smartwatch3 picked up a Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015.
The Red Dot Gala will take place on 29 June 2015 at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, Germany. Winners of the product design competition will be presented online on that date. Until then, you can visit the site to see winners from 2014 and previous years.
Past winners in the ‘Watches and jewellery’ category include the Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver and the NOMOS Lambda Weißgold.
Sources : Red Dot // A Blog to Watch