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.
Baselworld vs SIHH: who stands to gain?
It seems there is always someone doing their level best to pit Baselworld and SIHH one against the other. As though these two fine initiatives were opposites that could never attract... when for the past 28 years they have coexisted on perfectly good terms, each having "just about" found its market and its audience. And it's this "just about" that should be occupying our thoughts.
Cartier, jeweller of Ocean's 8
The Parisian firm supplied the film with jewellery, including a necklace inspired by the one Jacques Cartier imagined in 1931 for the Maharajah of Nawanagar. Scenes for the film were shot on location at the Cartier Mansion on 52nd Street, NYC.
Luxury is back – ask investors!
Mirroring the 11% gain registered by Swiss watch exports over the first four months of the year, share prices in the luxury segment have climbed, reaching new highs in May.
H. Moser & Cie launches an irreverent new website
The company's latest website, pioneerchronicles.com, gives free rein to its offbeat approach to fine watchmaking and its contrarian communication.
Glashütte Original carries on its Sixties revival
Tapping into the ever-present vintagemania, Glashütte Original presents the Sixties and the Sixties Date Panorama, both with gradient green dials.
RJ powers up with a new Pac-Man™ watch
Calling all Pac-Man™ fans! RJ presents a third watch, the aptly-named Level III, in collaboration with Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., inventor of the 1980s arcade game.
