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.
A mechanical breakthrough from Greubel Forsey
Continuing its research into nano-energy, the brand has announced the first Nano Foudroyante EWT with a power reserve of 180 days.
Melted-down luxury watches become "luxury" watches. Really?
The e-commerce website QoQa, in conjunction with ArtyA founder Yvan Arpa, recently ran an offer of "luxury" watches. Each featured a plate made from five melted-down Fine Watches which, by some form of transfer, supposedly gives them identical status. A line customers were happy to believe.
Moritz Grossmann counts down to Christmas 2018
The Glashütte brand is already looking ahead to winter 2018 with plans for an advent calendar featuring a Moritz Grossmann timepiece behind each window.
A new location for Breguet in New York
Breguet has opened the doors to its new flagship store in New York, inside the St. Regis Hotel on the city's iconic Fifth Avenue – an event the brand celebrated at a glamorous cocktail party.
Richard Mille – The RM 07-01 makes ceramic sparkle
After carbon, Richard Mille takes on ceramic. It takes a bold attitude as well as a specialised technique to set stones in such a hard material. Richard Mille has both, as this RM 07-01 shows.
Rolex steals the show at Christie's
The highlight of the recent New York sale, a Rolex Oyster Cosmograph Paul Newman Daytona Ref. 6263, manufactured in 1969, sailed through the $1 million mark.
