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.
With Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, I have lost a friend
The call from Olivier Revol, chef de cabinet to the former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, hit me like a thunderbolt in a blue sky. The President has passed away. I knew he had not been in the best of health recently; that he had been admitted to hospital with heart problems. I’d called to wish him a speedy recovery and found him as brilliant as ever. He had until then enjoyed enviably good health for his 94 years, but not enough to resist the ravages of Covid.
A moon phase plus tourbillon from Jaeger-LeCoultre
Equipped with the new automatic Calibre 983, this is the first time Jaeger-LeCoultre has combined moon phase and tourbillon, with the addition of its signature peripheral jumping date.
A musical collection with the Nomos Tetra Symphony
German brand Nomos marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven with the Tetra Symphony quartet. The Tetra Divine Spark is inspired by the opening verse of the Ode to Joy.
Franck Muller's triple-axis tourbillons
The Revolution tourbillons by Franck Muller stand out as some of the most ambitious, radical and astonishing there are. Latest in the series: the Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton.
Blancpain celebrates the Formosa clouded leopard
With its Métiers d’Art collection, Blancpain offers a journey through cultures. Today, the Manufacture sets sail for Taiwan by dedicating two individual models to one of the wonders of the animal kingdom bound up with the island’s history: the Formosa clouded leopard.
Roger Dubuis Excalibur Blacklight electrifies today’s neon cities
The art of transforming the glittering towers and glassy spires of a buzzing metropolis into a recognisable watch design is no mean feat. Extravagant and irreverent, the Excalibur Blacklight is an ode to vibrant cites like Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing at the height of their nightly splendour.
