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.
Global warming and counterfeiting: one and the same fight (II)
Like climate change, a global threat whose effects can already be felt, counterfeiting has consequences on a worldwide scale. Marc Frisanco, a specialist with the Richemont group, talks about the measures that must be taken.
TellWatch has designs on watches
Bought by a private investor in 2004, Polysoft Tell is the company behind TellWatch, a CAD application for the watch industry. Five years on, numerous manufacturers swear by this tool.
Are social networking sites the new eldorado?
In its 2009 World Watch Report, IC-Agency has included its first analysis of social networking sites and their importance for watch brands.
The Cabestan sails a unique course
Part quixotic dream, part provocation, part avant-garde, part fascination, virtuoso mechanics have the power to go down in history, in that instant or for decades to come. The Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical is one such prowess.
Jaquet Droz, ultimate ceramic
Jaquet Droz gives a mark of prestige to ceramic, a high-tech material that is still rarely seen in fine watchmaking. The superlative quality of the raw material combines with sophisticated manufacturing techniques to create avant-garde cases with a penetrating deep lustre.
