Despite winning at the Prix Gaïa for “Entrepreneurship” in 2009 and the Aiguille d’Or for best overall watch at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève in 2010, winning at the newly established Chronometry Competition (http://www.concourschronometrie.org/2013/FR/index.php) meant more to Robert and Stephen than any other. These days, something of an anachronistic event, the Chronometry Competition harked back a half-century or more, when watches were racing machines in an endurance duel against the heavens. The earth’s rotation on its celestial path was the only known immovable timing device that kept time to the minute and second. Observatory timing contests were the horology equivalents of Grand Prix auto racing and the major watch firms of the day spent considerable resources on developing a winning watch. When Greubel Forsey had started off their fledgling enterprise, one of the first units they established was the EWT (Experimental Watch Technology). The EWT was designed to bring experimental conditions to the implementation of new inventions so the watchmakers could know the difference an invention made and if it improved chronometric performance. (http://general.watchprosite.com/show-nblog.post/ti-506881/fi-662/). As part of the EWT process, Robert and Stephen developed their own series of timing tests for the watches containing their inventions.

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