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.
Style and substance
With fewer components but greater stability, the new Calibre 36 from Glashütte Original is both reliable and robust. This high-performance mechanism, complete with silicon balance spring, borrows the classic good looks of the Senator Excellence.
Into the deep blue
One look at its color says it all. The Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe in its plasma gray ceramic diving suit is on-call to explore the ocean's deep.
Breitling races into action
Clad in several hundred layers of woven carbon fibre, the Bentley GMT B04 S is the ideal companion for the road ahead, guaranteed to keep on running.
The complex art of femininity
A hint of mother-of-pearl, a soupçon of gold, a smattering of diamonds… Patek Philippe brings a swathe of softness to its famous annual calendar. A visual enchantment that contains a wealth of technique.
Time and motion
The desire to find new ways to relate time has prompted watchmakers to replace the mundane hour and minute hands with often astonishing solutions that breathe new vitality into time displays.
Titanium, the new face of precision
The timekeeping performance of a constant-force, fusee and chain transmission meets the relaxed elegance of titanium. A mechanical heavyweight in the lightest of bodies for this grail of precision watchmaking by Romain Gauthier.
