Il Watch&Touch by Candy, il smart and design oven designed to manage every moment of food preparation through a simple touch, won the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2018.
Considered the most important international award in the field of design, The Red Dot Award aims to honor the quality of the best designers and manufacturers from around the world, and represents a real benchmark in the industry, having awarded over the years companies di absolute excellence such as Apple, BMW, Google, Bose and the Italian Pininfarina.
According to the company's memo, “Watch&Touch, chosen by a jury of about 40 members among over 6.300 products proposed by companies from 59 countries, is a premium product with an iconic design launched by Candy group, able to represent the main values of the brand: l'italianity, the style , creativeness combined with an extreme ease of use and connectivity”.
"Winning the Red Dot Award is a source of great pride and satisfaction for us, but above all a testament to the goodness of the direction we took several years ago, when we were the first to launch a complete range of connected appliances" stressed Beppe Fumagalli, CEO of Candy Group. “Developing unique and innovative products such as the Watch&Touch oven is in Candy's DNA, which has always combined a mix of style, taste and creativity typical of Italy with a strong innovative and technological component, going to change the way people live and interpret the home and the kitchen.”
Exclusive functions of Watch&Touch are the integrated camera andU-see patented lighting formed by lateral LED lights positioned in the inner door of the oven, which allow an optimal view of the inside of the cavity, as well as a close-up on the dishes being cooked for constant monitoring without opening the door. Thanks to the app Candy Simply Fi it is also possible to manage every function of the oven from your smartphone or tablet, including the possibility of checking and supervising the cooking status in each of its steps and being able to use the exclusive Watch&Touch features even remotely, such as video recipes preloaded and sent to the oven door, cooking suggested with over 70 programs for the best combination of options for cooking the chosen dish, e personal programs which allow you to create your own library with your favorite cooking programs.
The official awards ceremony for the winners of the Red Dot Award the next one will take place July 9 2018On the occasion of Red Dot Gala which will take place atAalto Theater in Essen, where the winners of the various categories will be presented in front of an audience of over 1.200 international guests.
Candy Watch&Touch, like the other award-winning products, will then be included in the “Red Dot Design Yearbook 2018-2019” of the prize and presented and exhibited in the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany.
