International Polar Year (IPY) Across The Arctic With Rolex
With the support of Rolex, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have embarked on a four month adventure taking them 4,300 km across the Arctic. Their objective: to advance scientific research into climate at high latitudes.
Learning and progressing through adventure, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have set themselves a multidisciplinary challenge as part of the International Polar Year (IPY). Above and beyond the unique athletic aspect of their expedition, which is a world first, their journey will advance knowledge of the polar regions they are to cross.
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To commemorate 175 years since its foundation, the firm with the famous winged hourglass logo is enlarging its museum and publishing a work devoted to the socioeconomic development of its birthplace, a region to which it has always remained loyal.
For the kick-off of festivities marking the 175th anniversary of Longines, a large presence gathered on 1st March this year in Saint-Imier, where president of the company Walter von Kaenel welcomed journalists from around the world with his customary geniality, together with a number of leading local personalities and Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkunaite, the ambassador of Longines elegance.
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Swiss Made Proposed Reinforcement
The FH intends to take an important new step by proposing at its forthcoming General Meeting a reinforcement of the Ordinance of the Federal Council on use of the name Swiss for watches.
Use of the Swiss Made label for watches is covered by an ordinance of the Federal Council dated 29 December 1971, the famous Swiss Made Ordinance, which for a number of years has been subject to many criticisms, particularly inside the industry, because it is considered too lax, but also in legal circles, where the view is that it no longer fully meets the legal mandate specified in the law on trademarks.
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