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 – Beautiful brown
Terra-brown sets the tone for two new versions of the Saxonia Automatic by A. Lange & Söhne, issued for the reopening of its Tokyo boutique.
A bit of electronics in your engine? (I)
Since its post-quartz crisis resuscitation, mechanical watchmaking has kept a strict distance from anything electrical. Electronic circuitry was a no-go… until the advent of smart watches.
Breitling – Dark forces
Two chrono counters, a black oscillating weight, a sleek new strap with aircraft tire-tread pattern, a supersized case… the Navitimer 46 Blacksteel moves up a level.
Maximum exposure
Having cast off their dial, having rid their movement of extraneous matter, skeleton watches reveal all, or almost all, their mechanical anatomy. Take a peek, in images, at a branch of horology that has nothing to hide.
Richard Mille – The "wow" watch
Probably the coolest watch around, the new RM 68-01 Tourbillon Cyril Kongo seals the encounter between the watchmaker and street artist Cyril Kongo, aka Mr Colorful. Who else but Richard Mille would dare?
