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.
Minerva Villeret, Montblanc's new Fine Watch signature
A manufacturer of watches established in Villeret, Minerva, which joined Montblanc in early 2007, will emerge from renovation to better serve the brand's ambitions in the Fine Watch segment.
Antoine Preziuso, a watchmaker with a difference
An independent watchmaker for 30 years, Antoine Preziuso has always sung to his own tune. His watches are a way for him to continually mark his difference with the rest of the industry. B-Side is the proof.
Richard Mille: "There will be no other planetary-tellurium"
Richard Mille goes back over the conditions in which his planetary-tellurium came into being. Even if "each piece made him sweat blood and water", the designer smiles a winning smile since his team has achieved a real accomplishment. The final curtain will come down on this era when it is sold this summer.
Alexandre Perraldi, the Samurai of design
Since he took over from Baume & Mercier's design studio in 2001, he has been orchestrating all the brand's watch making projects under the initials Phi, a symbol that corresponds to this 40 year old man well, passionate about the philosophy of the Samurais and in search of perfect balance.
Audemars Piguet sets out to revisit striking watches
A specialist in striking watches, Audemars Piguet has embarked on a research project in collaboration with the Hautes Écoles of French-speaking Switzerland, aimed at recreating the lost sound of turn-of-the-century pieces. The project should come to fruition by 2010.
