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.
SIHH, the age of reason
The curtain has come down on the 27th Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, marked by a record number of exhibitors that proved themselves well able to adapt their products to a mixed environment.
Jaquet Droz – The height of refinement
Virtuoso mechanics and shimmering beauty meet at the heart of the Grande Seconde Tourbillon Mother-of-Pearl. A deliciously feminine watch, to be revealed at Baselworld.
De Bethune – Starstruck
No need to tear your gaze from the dial of your watch in order to contemplate the heavens. The DB25L Milky Way has seized a handful of white gold stars and captured them in the deep blue of a titanium dial, watched over by a highly precise spherical moon phase. A waking dream…
Is the mighty tourbillon going down?
Some say we are now living in a post-luxury world, and if it’s true, we may be seeing the last of the tourbillons. This difficult, beautiful and expensive complication became the symbol of the now-waning 20-year boom in luxury watches. Have we encountered a luxury apocalypse? If so, these five great tourbillons introduced at SIHH 2017 may be the last of a dying species.
Five minutes with… Alexandre Viale, creator of Beau Parleur
Luxury and influence have long been intertwined. Within social media, few individuals succeed in reshaping self-identity and behaviour of online consumers. With ‘Tastemakers’, we aim to uncover these new authorities, whether they are creators or ‘coolhunters’. Today, we welcome Alexandre Viale, creator of Beau Parleur.
Glashütte Original – Groovy!
Deliciously vintage, fabulously funky, the Sixties Iconic collection is an array of five chronographs whose coloured dials are by Glashütte Original's own manufacturer in Pforzheim. Limited to 25 of each, there's not a minute to waste!
