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.
Armin Strom – Good vibrations
Two bodies vibrating in close proximity will ultimately do so at the same frequency: this principle, known as resonance, is at the heart of the Mirrored Force Resonance with its twin sprung balances.
No great excitement at Christie's
Despite a well-curated catalogue, the auction house ended its sale with the most unsold lots of the weekend (15%). The most surprising result was for a Patek Philippe pocket watch dated 1864, which went for almost twenty times its estimate.
Good deals under the hammer at Sotheby's
More than a third of the watches proposed on November 15th in Geneva were no older than 2005. A good opportunity to spot the ones that hold their value, and those with less staying power.
Zenith – Modern vintage
The 2,500 chronographs which Zenith produced for the Italian armed forces in the 1960s are highly prized on the vintage market. Now Zenith is offering its own renaissance by reviving the spirit of this timepiece with the Heritage Cronometro TIPO CP-2.
Patek Philippe and Rolex are the stars of the autumn sales
Close to 1,400 watches and clocks crossed the block over four days in Geneva, achieving CHF 54.6 million. Read on for everything you always wanted to know about the Geneva autumn sales but were afraid to ask.
Phillips sets a new auction record for a wristwatch
The auction house sold a Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 in stainless steel for CHF 11 million. Two other examples went for CHF 1.47 million and CHF 598,000. The sale realised a total of CHF 27.5 million.
