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.
De Witt lives its passion to the full
The brand, which recently moved into new production facilities in Meyrin, just outside Geneva, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with five new models, each in the image of a company that is intent on going its own way.
Vianney Halter, in with the old
Step over the threshold at Manufacture Janvier in Sainte-Croix and you immediately understand that this is a temple to watchmaking in the most traditional sense, although not without some concessions to modern technology.
De Bethune takes watchmaking to a new dimension
De Bethune's two founders share a passion for technical innovation and use science to create timepieces that are also masterpieces.
Football and watches: Not a matter of life or death but much more important
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that” are famous and very true words spoken by Bill Shankly, the legendary and successful Liverpool coach during the Seventies.
When Beauty kisses the Beast
Football has won new supporters among some brands but is struggling to seduce the Fine Watch sector.
Silinvar®, Spiromax® and other Patek Philippe Pulsomax®
It has been six years since Patek Philippe started to study the possibilities of the application of silicon in watchmaking techniques.
