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.
To the second
With the most recent edition of its successful Senator Chronometer, the Glashütte Original manufactory offers certified precision in a distinctive and expressive dark blue version.
Project Z9, sport for the wrist
Project Z by the House of Harry Winston is a high-tech timepiece collection that is dedicated to one of the most prestigious complications, contained within a sports-like exterior.
Women in watchmaking
Fine Watchmaking is often accused of sidelining women, even though the other half of the sky – to borrow a famous Chinese metaphor – is an essential interlocutor for stakeholders across the board. Women are consistently more attentive to watches, be they precious or complicated. In managerial positions, they know how to provide important and decisive direction.
The nearest thing to a furtive watch?
Hublot reveals all with the Big Bang Unico Sapphire, showing its expertise in sapphire-cutting combined with skeletonwork. A Big Bang with nothing to hide.
Ten animal-inspired watches
We almost expect to hear them roar, take to the air in a flurry of wings, break into a gallop or leap from branch to branch. "They" are the butterflies, horses, birds, snakes, monkeys and panthers in watchmakers' fabulous menagerie. An expedition, in images, through lush foliage where precious creatures great and small play.
Peek-a-boo Moon
The Earth's satellite takes pride of place at the centre of the Premier Moon Phase 36mm, hidden behind a delicate white mother-of-pearl lattice. A waking dream.
