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.
Blancpain takes a karrusel ride
The brand reinstates a complication that had lain forgotten for more than a century, and which offers an alternative to the tourbillon.
Brands that set their sights high
Virtually every brand currently recentering its activities, or intent on catching a second wind, swears by the Fine Watch segment, the golden ticket into the markets. Demonstration with Corum and Hublot.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Opus 8!
Harry Winston reveals Opus 8, a watch that displays time on demand and in a very unusual way.
All eyes on Basel
How to sum up Baselworld 2008? With 2,087 exhibitors, over 100,000 visitors and revenues of CHF 1.2 billion for Switzerland alone. For one week, the city-on-the-Rhine becomes the world capital of luxury.
