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.
"We want to position ourselves as a reference in Fine Watchmaking"
Appointed Industrial Director at Jaeger-LeCoultre in January 2011, prior to taking up his new position as Chief Executive Officer in July this year, Daniel Riedo took time out from the recent Venice Film Festival, which the brand has partnered for almost a decade, to discuss its next steps.
Tribute to "the individual"
When Irving Stone wrote his biographical novel about Michelangelo, he called it The Agony and the Ecstasy. His book went on to inspire a film with Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. The message is clear: the way to artistic and aesthetic ecstasy is through agony, effort and dedication.
MB&F – tribute to the grand masters
For the past two years, alongside its Horological Machines, the brand led by Max Büsser and Serge Kriknoff has been developing the Legacy Machines concept. Unveiled this week, the second watch in the collection reprises the dual regulator, a principle explored by Ferdinand Berthoud, Abraham-Louis Breguet and Antide Janvier, no less.
