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.
Never say never !
They said it would never happen: HYT would never make a classic watch. Now the brand has had a change of heart and is exploring watchmaking's traditional side. The result, the H2 Tradition, puts a classic spin on fluid mechanics.
Ten classic watches at SIHH 2016
Have watchmakers reached the age of reason? With fewer hands and uncluttered designs, they have no trouble capturing watch enthusiasts' interest. Less is more? The proof, tenfold!
25 and counting for De Bethune!
The DB25 World Traveller uses a concentric layout to show world time. Beneath the dial is the watchmaker's 25th in-house calibre.
Is 20 the age of opportunity?
Yes, according to Parmigiani Fleurier as it celebrates its twentieth anniversary with the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire, its first integrated chronograph.
Classicism is a tradition with a future
Montblanc looks to the first chronographs to have been made by Minerva in the 1920s as the inspiration for the Heritage Annual Calendar Chronograph. A future classic?
