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. Lange & Söhne – The magnificent five
Fusée-and-chain transmission, tourbillon, chronograph, rattrapante and perpetual calendar… The Tourbograph Perpetual "Pour le Mérite" brilliantly associates five complications and takes classic Fine Watchmaking to its pinnacle.
In praise of complexity
Complications are, for watchmakers, a means of expressing their mechanical ingenuity and sense of innovation. Despite an economic climate that inspires prudence, a good many Maisons have chosen to shun simplicity. A round-up of what's on show at SIHH.
E la nave va !
A story of ships, those who sail in them, and the proper conduct of captains in Genevese waters…
H. Moser & Cie. – Say cheese!
From Swiss cheese to pure watch mechanics! After the iconoclast Swiss Mad Watch in Vacherin Mont d’Or, the Venturer Swiss Mad in white gold puts the Swiss back into Swiss Made.
10 watches to look out for at SIHH
In the final countdown before Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, the lowdown, in pictures, on ten watches that will be making news in 2017, and a preview of the trends to expect…
