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.
Breguet: the Expression of Being
Breguet is enhanced by advanced technologies and inspired by the world of culture. The collection unveiled this year at Basel 2009 certainly adheres to these criteria.
"The crisis is saving Swiss watchmaking"
A watchmaking engineer and constructor at the head of the R&D consultancy Coredem, Henri-Michel Guignard believes the quality of mechanical products fails to live up to retail prices… and that the current climate will force this to change.
La Montre Hermès has new ambitions
Luc Perramond, who took over at the head of La Montre Hermès on January 5th this year, has set his sights high for the watchmaking wing of the world-famous French luxury brand.
Imprisoned in the present!
As a specialist in the study of time in physics, Etienne Klein* generously accepted to share his thoughts on this universal question. The second in a three-part exchange.
