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.
Audemars Piguet, at home in Le Brassus
Earlier this month, the Le Brassus watchmaker hosted an official ceremony to lay the first stone of its future museum. This futuristic building – a half-buried glass and concrete spiral with roof garden – will be joined, on the other side of the Manufacture, by the brand's second project: a luxury hotel, currently under construction.
Bovet – All day and all of the night
Applied with the utmost care to a mother-of-pearl dial, this miniature painting is created with a luminescent material so that its beauty can shine through, even in darkness. Sheer brilliance!
Hublot – Colour me sapphire
After proving its capacity to machine sapphire cases on a large scale, Hublot adds colour. Blue or red, the Big Bang Unico Sapphire is a shade above!
Basel Dazzle
Don't knock the rocks! Ladies’ jewelry watches at Baselworld 2017 made a statement in a less than stellar year. Harry Winston, Chopard and Patek Philippe were among the brands putting on a flamboyant show.
Al Pacino: "I've always loved watches"
A neatly-trimmed beard, jet-black hair, a voice chiselled by an overindulgence of cigarettes and pure malt. Who are we talking to? Who else but Al Pacino.
