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.
“The watchmaking brands hold a strong hand on digital”
The “Best Swiss Brands 2013” study ranks the 50 most valuable Swiss brands. 16 Swiss watchmakers feature in the top 50, with Rolex and Omega even making it into the top 10! Why, how? Interview with Michel Gabriel, Managing Director of American brand consultancy firm Interbrand who compile the “Best Swiss Brands” study every year.
F.P. Journe travels in time with the Historical Anniversary Tourbillon
In honour of thirty years of watchmaking, François-Paul Journe has reproduced as a wristwatch the first ever timepiece, a pocket watch, he invented and made. With its hunter case in guilloché silver and gold, the result is surprisingly up-to-date.
Watchmaking's Latin American Oscars
All work and no play will make anyone a dull boy, so why not offer the art of time measurement a festive evening, and elect the year's oustanding watches at the same time? Such is the thinking behind the Tiempo de Relojes awards ceremony, part of the Salón Internacional Alta Relojería (SIAR) in Mexico City. Swatch's Sistem51, Cartier and Girard-Perregaux were the evening's big winners.
Women in time
France's President François Hollande has commented on the fact that the Pantheon in Paris, where the country remembers and honours those who have contributed to its greatness, has only two women occupants. One is Marie Curie; the other is Sophie Berthelot, and only by virtue of her husband, the chemist Marcellin Berthelot. In an age where we increasingly recognise and affirm the role of women, that the Pantheon should stand out as a male bastion must encourage President Hollande, during his five-year term, to "Pantheonise" only women. There will be no shortage of candidates!
