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.
Nothing is worth more than independence
Kari Voutilainen was born in Finland in 1962, and admits that watchmaking has been his passion for the past thirty years. A passion that first took him to the Tapiola Watchmaking School, then on to the International Watchmaking School in Neuchâtel, where he completed the WOSTEP course in complication watches. Singled out by Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps, he spent ten years there before returning to WOSTEP and a three-year stint as director of the complication watch section. In 2002, Kari Voutilainen set up his own business in Môtiers, as an artisan d'horlogerie d'art. We caught up with him at Baselworld.
DualTow, an exceptional watch for an outstanding occasion
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Manufacture Christophe Claret, the master-watchmaker has created DualTow, a single-pusher planetary-gear chronograph with striking mechanism, tourbillon and a belt-type hour and minute display. Put simply, a remarkable timepiece.
The new Harry Winston Opus: a testament to the essential
Jointly created by watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht and designer Eric Giroud, both eminent figures in their field, Opus 9 exists purely and simply to give the time by means of two diamond chains. Beautiful and essential.
Parmigiani innovates with its "Ateliers"
Much like a haute couture boutique, Ateliers Parmigiani will convey the very essence of the brand in the world's major cities. After-sales service will also be optimised.
AlpVision invents an intelligent anti-counterfeiting solution
AlpVision, a Swiss firm based in Vevey, has developed a digital imaging system based on mathematical algorithms that will identify a watch throughout its lifetime, and for one simple reason: all industrially-manufactured products, even mass-made ones, have their own print.
Everything you always wanted to know about… fine watches but were afraid to ask
The Watch@Tablet, an encyclopaedia of fine watches developed by the FHH for retailers, is set to become an invaluable resource for sales staff. This touchscreen notebook gives advice and information on demand.
