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.
Resuming the hands of time
In Emilia, a fertile region of northern Italy, time stood still for long seconds. Again and again. Clock towers, medieval turrets and ancestral homes where locals gathered in times of celebration or danger are now just a pile of rubble.
Passion and adrenalin on the auctioneer's block
A portrait of Julien Schaerer, managing director of Antiquorum Geneva since end 2010, fresh from the auction house's two spring sales, which garnered a total CHF 13.8 million.
Concepto positions itself as an alternative to Swatch Group
The group, based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, has set up a new company, Optimo Assortments, which will supply full assortments to the watch industry as of the second half of the year, with the capacity to produce 400,000 kits a year. In doing so, it positions itself as the only serious alternative to Swatch Group.
Young people, treasures of humanity
Young people are treasures of humanity, but how many are truly aware of the fact? How many will have access to a level of instruction that will enable them to turn their talent into their trade?
