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.
Luxury and watches: online at last
It's been a long time coming. Finally the luxury and watch industries have put their reservations aside and are ready to embark on their internet adventure. Though still only a small step, it nonetheless marks a giant leap in mentality. While numerous other industries have embedded the digital revolution into their business model, luxury and watchmaking have been dragged almost kicking and screaming into the online era. But the page has been turned, the race is on, and there is no going back.
Ulysse Nardin Lady Diver
A signature Ulysse Nardin timepiece since 2001, the Lady Diver reveals a refreshed marine- inspired design for 2014.
The moment of truth for Moser and Hautlence
Acquired by MELB Holding in 2012, Hautlence and H. Moser & Cie. have started to reveal their new face. An interview with Georges-Henri Meylan, the former Chief Executive of Audemars Piguet who brought the two brands back from the brink.
In New York, Sotheby's reveals a well-kept secret from Patek Philippe
Between 2000 and 2004, at the behest of a private collector, the Manufacture in Plan-les-Ouates made a number of wristwatches in titanium whose reference numbers were never revealed outside a small inner circle. This extraordinary collection will now appear in public for the first time when it comes under the hammer at Sotheby's.
Three brands in harmony under Marc Hayek
Blancpain, Breguet, Jaquet Droz: each of the three brands under Marc A. Hayek's leadership enjoys a strong positioning and is securing some solid footholds, particularly in movements.
