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.
Chopard – An empire for this watch
The Imperiale Joaillerie secret watch offers an interpretation of Inca motifs. Beneath the sophisticated mosaic of diamonds and turquoises, an automatic movement keeps rigorously precise time. Hypnotic…
Blake Lively, very vintage
She's in the pages and on the covers of every women's magazine. She? Blake Lively of course, aka Serena Van der Woodsen, the seriously on-trend, ex-student in the hit television series "Gossip Girl".
The taming of the screw
However insignificant it may appear on the surface, you would need to have a screw loose not to give this fundamental part the attention it deserves. The screw, whose invention is lost in the convolutions of history, performs most of the mechanical connections in today's complex calibres. Whoever said screws matter hit the nail on the head.
IWC – City slicker
“Not only is the Portugieser Chronograph Rattrapante a masterpiece of IWC engineering, it soon became a popular style icon too," explains Georges Kern, CEO of IWC. It now lends itself to three new special editions, dedicated to Milan, Paris and Munich.
Cartier – Not seeing is believing
Two hands that float as if by magic and Cartier's signature skeleton movement… the mystery of elegance is revealed with the new Rotonde de Cartier Skeleton Mysterious Hour.
Jaeger-LeCoultre – A rendezvous with time
Even the most absent-minded lady no longer has any excuse: so as never to arrive late, or simply to remember the time of her next appointment, the Rendez-Vous Sonatina Large chimes a reminder that there is somewhere she needs to be…
