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.
Cartier pushes back the boundaries of watchmaking
First it was the ID One, now it’s the ID Two, a second Cartier concept watch that fundamentally questions the principle of high efficiency. It is a totally innovative piece, in its materials and its technologies, that demonstrates Cartier’s ability to invent the watchmaking of tomorrow.
TAG Heuer brings cutting-edge technology to fine watches
Guy Sémon started at TAG Heuer four and a half years ago with the brief to build a research and development division from scratch. A mission he has accomplished with remarkable breakthroughs in fine watchmaking, the latest being the MikrotourbillonS.
Stamping and engraving: an original combination
Cendres+Métaux Galétan, a company in La Chaux-de-Fonds, has developed a method of combining stamping and electroplating. It produces a stamping that looks exactly like a guillochage or an engraving.
TAG Heuer, vertical integration at full speed
Last May, TAG Heuer laid the foundation stone of its new avant-garde Manufacture in the Jura, another step in its integration programme that aims to produce its own movements, dials and cases. A company visit.
