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.
Roses for Anabah
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…" we read in the magnificent and masterly story of The Little Prince. Roses and responsibility for others are also central to Jaeger-LeCoultre's A Rose for Emergency in support of the maternity hospital which the non-governmental organisation Emergency opened in 2003 in Anabah, Afghanistan.
Urwerk UR-210: man and machine as one
The UR-210 features an innovative mechanism that indicates winding efficiency. Unlike a torque indicator, which relies on mainspring tension, its calculations are based on the ratio between winding and actual energy use. The wearer then adapts the automatic winding to how active or inactive he is.
At PPR "each brand must remain autonomous"
A year after the acquisition of Sowind (Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard), François-Henri Pinault, head of PPR, discusses the group's strategy for its watch brands in an interview to French daily "Le Figaro".
