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 horological cocktail that will turn women's heads
In the 1930s, the Pink Lady was the cocktail of choice for high-society women. It's now the name of a watch by Richard Mille, an intoxicating mix of pink sapphire and high mechanics.
Limelight Gala Milanaise: hit or it?
After the It-girl and the It-bag, introducing the It-watch! The Limelight Gala Milanaise is one of the new must-haves among women's timepieces.
The forecast for 2016: hope, serenity and courage
Last February 18th, in one of my "Points of View" for HH Journal, I ventured a prudent but certainly reasonable forecast of CHF 21 billion for Swiss watch exports in 2015, based on figures published by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH). A result ultimately in line with the worldwide inflation rate. If my memory serves me well, other specialists, brands and analysts appeared more optimistic. None, however, predicted the sudden change in watchmaking's clement skies, brought on by the socio-economic droughts, hurricanes, floods, tornados and tsunamis that happened over the course of the recently ended year.
After Aventicum, Christophe Claret turns to Mecca
This new timepiece reveals an astonishing and beautiful sight. Prepare to be amazed.
Sun, moon, stars, Cartier
Forget the procession of hours and minutes, and look instead to the moon's phases or the endless succession of day and night, with two precious complications that are the stuff of dreams.
The complication that opens a new era for the TimeWalker
Montblanc's patented complication makes a striking debut in the brand's contemporary, urban line with the TimeWalker ExoTourbillon Minute Chronograph Limited Edition 100.
