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.
Hublot – Berluti, the chrono
In 2016, Hublot introduced the Classic Fusion Berluti line, in collaboration with the renowned shoemaker whose famous Venezia leather is now found on the Classic Fusion Chronograph Berluti, with a choice of two finishes.
Louis Vuitton – Rhapsody in blue
An ingenious system of 12 rotating cubes in an iconoclastic time display meets a central flying tourbillon with a V-shaped bridge. The Escale Spin Time Tourbillon Central Blue is already turning heads…
IWC – Revising the classics
Applied Arabic numerals, railroad minute track and characteristic leaf-shaped hands… the Portugieser Chronograph Classic embraces the identity of the Portugieser collection. This subtly reworked version comes in three colour combinations.
Vintage: who's next?
The Geneva auctions may be the eye of the vintage storm, they are still dominated by a handful of record-breaking brands. What, though, of the market's future stars? Intrepid collectors go off in search of the brands that time forgot – the very ones that may one day be setting records of their own.
F.P. Journe – Happy anniversary
F.P. Journe celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Geneva boutique with an eminently collectible ten-piece edition of the Centigraphe Souverain.
Five “nicknamed” watches under the hammer
A watch important enough to have a nickname, no matter how silly it sounds, means it is adored by collectors. The Phillips “Geneva Watch Auction: Five” has at least five such Grail pieces among the 237 lots to be auctioned in Geneva this coming weekend, May 13 and 14.
