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.
Affluent Asia should drive Swiss watch sales
The number of Asian millionaires is set to double over the next three years. China will be the biggest market for luxury goods in 2015.
The George Daniels collection under the hammer at Sotheby's
At an exceptional sale this November 6th, Sotheby's London will disperse the 137 pieces in the personal collection of George Daniels, the twentieth century's greatest watchmaker.
Breguet makes history with a watch for a Queen
Breguet celebrates the bicentennial of the first bracelet-watch, made for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples.
From a reliable source...
Whether researching new materials, developing innovative mechanisms, or implementing standards and tests, watchmakers have always looked for ways to make their timepieces more reliable and robust. This was the theme the Société Suisse de Chronométrie chose for its fifteenth Study Day.
