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.
Roger Dubuis must develop on a global scale
Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Roger Dubuis in summer 2008, Matthias Schuler, formerly Chief Operating Officer at IWC, talks about the brand's future.
"We need to wow the end customer"
With sales for the fourth quarter 2008 taking a plunge, Corum has completely revised its strategy and is now focusing on creativity and exclusivity. Retailers no longer want to tie up their cash assets in basic products. Antonio Calce, chief executive, explains.
Pierre-Michel Golay is the new brand in the Franck Muller Group
At the head of research and development at Franck Muller since 2002, Pierre-Michel Golay is setting up his own brand within the group. A tribute to the talent and creativity of a man who has devoted his life to complications… in all simplicity.
Cartier: By Design and Movement
Mention the name Cartier and it conjures up images of resplendence and magnificence. In all objects of their creation—from jewelry to perfumes and cigarette lighters — Cartier embodies exceptional quality and exclusivity.
Watches get an electro-shock
Not for one second do the "colonels" of luxury watchmaking imagine that electronics might one day launch a new offensive. The industry would never make the same mistakes again. Not when it has learned the lessons of a bloody war in which so many unknown soldiers fell; the thousands of workers who lost not just their livelihood but their very life, and will never be forgotten. The Maginot Line has been rebuilt, and if these colonels did have to prepare for a new onslaught, they would march into battle with the firm conviction they would win.
Neuchâtel at the cutting edge of scientific time
Within the coming years, Switzerland will have one of the few laboratories to possess a cold atom frequency standard and future benchmark for international atomic time.
