Sustainability: a drop in the ocean?
The One Ocean Summit in Brest aims to mobilise the international community to take tangible action to save the ocean. Yet another emergency for the stricken planet. Part one: taking stock.
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Luxury, biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction
At five points in the past 500 million years, life on Earth was almost completely wiped out. We are now on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, and we are the cause. Can humans right their wrongs? The luxury industry must lead by example.
Montblanc joins forces with the Messner Mountain Foundation
Montblanc lends its support to educational initiatives in remote mountain areas through its cooperation with the Messner Mountain Foundation.
Watch auctions feel the pinch in 2020
At CHF 316 million, watch auctions made 19% less in 2020 than the previous year, despite an increased number of sales including online. As noted by The Mercury Project, Phillips takes the top spot with a 39% share of the market.
Pre-Watches and Wonders: Chanel J12 Electro
The Maison presents its capsule collection Chanel Electro, with graphic codes borrowed from Electro culture.
Pre-Watches and Wonders: Cartier Fine Watchmaking
Cartier displays time around the Tourbillon, with three ultra-stylish mechanisms. Each of these pieces reveals how time is showcased through the architecture of a skeleton movement, the hypnotising mysterious model, or in the complexity of a Double Tourbillon.
Hainan is paradise island for Chinese duty-free shoppers
Hainan island – one of the stop-offs for Watches and Wonders 2020 – reels in tourists and Chinese shoppers with its beaches, palm trees and duty-free malls, a sector that is now opening to competition. Richemont is in the running through a collaboration with China Duty Free Group and a stake in Dufry.
For its 100th birthday, Cartier reinterprets the Tank Cintrée
This very faithful tribute to the original model marks its entry into the 21st century.
