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.
Already big in China, Omega takes on the US
Just days after the unveiling of its new Ladymatic collection in Beijing, Omega is launching an all-out attack on the US market.
Four masterpieces by Antide Janvier under the hammer at Sotheby's
On November 9th, three exceptional clocks changed hands for some €800,000 (USD 1,095,590), realising 20% of the total sale of important French furniture, sculptures and works of art. A fourth clock went unsold.
Ulysse Nardin grows its own diamonds
After its pioneering use of silicon, Ulysse Nardin strikes again with diamond. The first industrial unit producing silicon components with a nanocrystalline diamond coating is now up and running in Sion.
The new consumer-oriented water-resistant standard
Since July this year, water-resistant watches must conform to a new standard, ISO 22810. It turns the situation around by defining water-resistance criteria but giving no indication of the procedure manufacturers must follow to comply.
