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.
Christophe Golay on watch culture
The debate could seem endless. Fed by tradition and history, the watchmaking industry cannot avoid the debate. What are its values? Have they changed? Do they have any future? Christophe Golay, "custom-made" specialist who is not looking for glory or power gives us his answers.
Instruments & Mesures du Temps: born of a passion
For a company launched barely five years ago, the slogan "Watchmakers + Since Always" could be considered yet another impertinence in a branch that sees more than its share. As with any promotional claim, there is undoubtedly an element of exaggeration, of wishful thinking even, but also a sound reality. A passion for timepieces, kept alive by a small group of collectors over successive generations, has laid the foundations for a new name in the world of prestige watches, the Lausanne-based Instruments & Mesures du Temps (I&MT).
There's no accounting for taste?
Even in today's globalised world, no two markets are the same. Europeans are said to make conservative choices while the Chinese buy with their eyes closed. As for the Italians, they are in a league of their own. Brands' answer to this plurality is to propose powerful, identifiable collections.
Thousands of fake watches destroyed in Switzerland
Four years after the last mass destruction of counterfeit watches in Switzerland, no fewer than 29,000 fakes went into the crusher in July to mark the coming into force of new regulations on the importing of counterfeit goods.
Rolex has big plans in Biel
In September 2006, Rolex bought a plot of land in the city of Biel. Following a public consultation on June 1st 2008, it can now build on it. Rolex says it intends developing a new complex that will combine existing buildings into a single unit, thereby considerably facilitating logistics.
Pascal Dubois on watch culture
Pascal Dubois has watches in his blood. He and his brother Jean-Philippe are the fourth generation at the head of Dubois Dépraz, a family firm, founded in 1901 in the Vallée de Joux, that produces complications for the leading names in Swiss watches.
