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 Flow of light from HYT
HYT takes mechanical watchmaking into a new age of enlightenment. Mechanics replace electronics thanks to a proprietary complication that generates light on demand.
Now's the time for watch industry due diligence
Precious metal and precious stone supply chain due diligence is becoming a matter of urgency for watch brands, whose reputations could be put on the line by mining in high-risk areas. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie is there to assist them in this crucial social and environmental transition.
GPHG: Piaget wins the “Aiguille D’or” Grand Prix
The 2020 prize list of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) was unveiled on Thursday November 12 at the 20th GPHG awards ceremony, a poetic digital show masterfully hosted by actor Edouard Baer.
Ressence's Type 5X for the gentleman driver
Ressence continues to change the way and the why we experience mechanical watches with this second model in its X collection
Flytrack, the on-demand chronograph from Singer
The Singer Flytrack is a time-only watch featuring the brand's signature peripheral hours-disc indication combined with central minutes and central sweeping seconds.
Audemars Piguet complicates matters for the Code 11.59
For the first time in its history, Audemars Piguet combines the classicism and prestige of a flying tourbillon with the modernity of a flyback chronograph. Proposed as a 50-piece limited edition.
