Breguet
Breguet has taken their commitment to saving marine life one step further with the announcement of its five-year partnership with Race for Water Foundation.
Breguet’s founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet, made sure the maison stayed committed to maritime timekeeping after being appointed horologer to the French Royal Navy by King Louis XVIII in 1815.
Acknowledging that the ocean is under massive threat–largely from plastic pollution–Breguet has collaborated with Race for Water with the intention of raising awareness of ocean preservation.
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As part of the brand's sustainability efforts, German art-activist Liina Klauss, who lives in Hong Kong, also created the largest art installation the city's ever seen, named “Trash-Land-Art”.
Alongside Klauss and the charity Plastic Free Seas, Breguet rounded up students and volunteers who collected rubbish from the shores of Hong Kong, including Butterfly Beach at Tuen Mun.
Overall, the effort saw 10,000 pieces of ocean rubbish, including plastic bottles and bags, recovered from the ocean. If that’s not a good enough excuse to indulge in the watchmaker’s latest additions to La Marine collection–perhaps the Marine Chronographe 5527 or Marine Equation Marchante 5887–then nothing is.
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