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.
Urwerk EMC Pistol
The EMC watch, constructed by the Urwerk company, is a milestone in luxury watchmaking as the first and only mechanical watch in which the rate can be checked electronically at any time simply by pressing a button.
Mixed fortunes for the Geneva auctions
Each spring and autumn, for one week the capital of Swiss watchmaking becomes the capital of auction sales. An unusually warm November sunshine welcomed bidders to the latest sessions. Phillips presided over two sales: the now famous Only Watch and Two. Antiquorum was also present, along with stalwarts Christie's and Sotheby's, the latter for its unique History of Swatch Design.
TAG Heuer presents the “TAG Heuer Connected” watch
The first connected watch developed by a Swiss luxury watchmaker, engineered with Intel Inside and powered by Android Wear™
Independent watchmaking shines in Dubai
The first Dubai Watch Week turned the spotlight on independent watchmakers. The very ones most likely to interest collectors.
DeWitt Twenty-8-Eight Skeleton Tourbillon
The DeWitt calibre DW8028s uses age-old, recognized and highly reliable technical parameters in its construction: 18’000 A/h, a variable-inertia balance, a 44° angle escapement and 72 hours power reserve.
