Experience tomorrows visions yet today

Already today, futurologists define the automobile future of the 3rd millennium. A result of these visions poured in form is the FORTIS SPACELEADER CHRONOGRAPH by VOLKSWAGEN DESIGN: A team consisting of creative heads at Volkswagen Design and experienced watchmakers and technicians of traditional Swiss watch manufacturer FORTIS developed a contemporary chronograph together, equipped with a premium automatic movement with the forward-looking name SPACELEADER.
iF product design award 2010 FORTIS SPACELEADER.
This prize awarded by international experts is trusted world wide and denotes proven design quality.

Cultivate the established and invent the new

The micro mechanical high precision watch movement issecurely embedded by the black caoutchouc bracelet which keeps the watch grounded safely on the wrist. The characteristics of the new styled bracelet result in an ergonomically and comfortable shape. On one side the highly polished steel case reflects whereas on the other side the special new bracelet developed only for this watch, protectively surrounds the operation devices crown and pusher. The sapphire crystal is anti-reflective on both sides to guarantee an excellent legibility. The aesthetic clear-cut design of the automobile designers is multiply repeated in all functional elements of the watch, stands for its distinctive character and grants a high recognition value of this limited edition.

red dot award
The red dot design award is a large and coveted international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.
Since 1955 this design centre marks outstanding international product designs with its well known RED DOT. The FORTIS SPACELEADER by Volkswagen Design has been awarded the RED DOT honourable mention 2010.

FORTIS SPACELEADER by VOLKSWAGEN DESIGN
has been awarded with the world-wide renowned “GOOD DESIGN Award” of the Athenaeum Museum Chicago. The GOOD DESIGN award is the oldest and most renowned design prize of the world. It was constituted in 1950 by the architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames as well as the former curator of the MoMA, Edgar Kaufmann jr. It is conferred annually in different categories. This prize for excellent design represents a confirmation for the courage to create an unusual watch with face - opposing the unity design.

FORTIS SPACELEADER 1972 - 2010

The spirit at the beginning of the space age is reflected not only in the model appellation of the FORTIS collection in the early 70s. Watches like Spacematic, Stratoliner and Spaceleader testify from the extraordinary technical precision and the creative will to independent designs. Unique metal compositions and surfaces refinement ensure for huge scratch resistance of case, bracelet and watch glass. The model FORTIS Spaceleader Steel - Black of 1972 with its antimagnetic automatic caliber performing 21,600 half oscillations/hour, its day-/date indication with rapid correction and the facetted indices perfectly meet the spirit of the times and is considered a perfect symbiosis of Swiss high tech competence and creative power.