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 autumn sales in Geneva: Christie’s
Fans of Aurel Bacs had been saving the date of Monday November 12th for some considerable time. When the auctioneer stepped up to his podium at 9.30am, in the refurbished Grand Salon of the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, extra seats had to be hastily added to an already packed room.
The autumn sales in Geneva: Antiquorum
Always first off the (auctioneer's) block, Antiquorum opened the season with a sale of 613 lots on Sunday November 11th. Bidders filled the Grand Salon at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel du Rhône for the full seven hours of the sale, with the room emptying slightly only during the last half-hour: regrettably for the Cartier clocks and watches that didn't find a taker. The sale realised a total CHF 8.8 million with 494 lots sold and 19% unsold.
Richemont's boss bows out to analysts' applause
For the third time, Johann Rupert is stepping down from his position as CEO of Richemont while continuing in his role as Executive Chairman. And for the third time, the group has largely benefited from his experience, as interim figures confirm.
Cassandra was wrong
You may recall that at the start of the year, I enlisted the help of Cassandra, not known for her optimism, to attempt some predictions and write, in this column, that Swiss watch exports could expect to rise by 5%.
