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Polar cruise boom harming the Arctic, explorer warns

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German adventurer Arved Fuchs says he has seen Inuit villages flooded with gawping tourists – ‘Party ships have no place here’

Similarities and differences of production Acura NSX and race-bred NSX GT3 Evo

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    Acura NSX was born to be made into a brilliant race car. Acura NSX and race-bred NSX GT3 Evo share more than 80-percent of their underlying component parts, reflecting the fact that racing was an essential part of the plan from the earliest stages of the NSX development. Just how identical are the … Read more

20 of the best food tours around the world

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Feast your eyes on these foodie walking tours, which reveal the flavours – and culture – of cities from Lisbon to Lima, Havana to Hanoi

Audemars Piguet Sapphire Orbe: Sapphires from Dusk till Dawn

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  More than 12,000 stones are rigorously selected and set by hand. This piece combines a wide array of diamonds and sapphires in orange and blue hues. The dial is paved with graded orange sapphires. High jewellery, horology and design cues from nature have united in Audemars Piguet’s Haute Joaillerie collection since 2013. Started in … Read more

Is Time Running Out for Wrist Watches?

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  Technology is moving fast, and it’s taking over old traditions in multiple markets. Take the old wrist watch,for example. It’s simplicity yet complex design has a sort of timelessness and luxury to it, even as the smart watch takes over in the digital age. The so-called redundancy of the wrist watch has been cast … Read more

Piaget for SIHH 2019: Ultra-thin watchmaking, exceptional gem-setting and an expanded focus on meteorites

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  Piaget’s SIHH collection unites core watchmaking strengths with a celestial touch. Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller Piaget presents three new Altiplano timepieces at SIHH 2019. The new pieces blend watchmaking with the precise skills associated with working in precious stones. These stones, formed under tremendous heat and pressure and extracted from deep beneath the … Read more