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.
How we put the spring into watches (I)
A component weighing just a few hundredths of a gram transformed the watch from mechanised jewel into a scientific instrument that measured time with sufficient precision to enable navigators to discover the oceans and later take Man into space. Read all about the fabulous adventure of the balance spring…
Vianney Halter, the watchmaker of future past
He has put his name to some five hundred watches in total, and currently produces around twenty a year. Vianney Halter, winner of the 2016 Prix Gaïa, uses mechanical science to further his retro-futuristic vision of watchmaking. The kind that could run on steam!
Ulysse Nardin – Transparently beautiful
A heavyweight of watchmaking excellence, the Executive Skeleton Tourbillon feels feather-light on the wrist inside its titanium and ceramic case. The skeletonized Manufacture movement is a piece of modern art.
From feast to fast
In the years when it seemed Swiss watchmaking could do no wrong, the Maisons listened only to their ego and turned a deaf ear to their most precious asset: their identity. Now that times are hard, the ego's echo is making itself heard.
Jaquet Droz – A floral wonder
Want to say it with flowers? At any time of day or night, on command, the lotus on the Lady 8 Flower opens its petals. An aesthetic and mechanical performance that renews the art of the automaton watch.
Mission Autavia
An icon among TAG Heuer watches, the totemic racing chronograph, as worn by the legends of Formula 1, will be revealed in its latest version at Baselworld 2017. But what lies beneath a re-issue that is engineered to appeal to our emotions?
