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KSC: Using the Power of the Sun The Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau is continuing its commitment to the environment by converting its fleet of electric golf carts to solar power. Solar-cell roof panels, designed and engineered by Denmark-based SolarDrive, have been fitted to the course’s 205 carts, which makes Kau Sai Chau the largest operator of solar-powered golf carts in the world. “Our partnership with SolarDrive during its design evolution has resulted in a product that will enable us to cut our carbon emissions, reflecting our ongoing commitment to implement new and innovative solutions that will help make our golf course as environmentally friendly as possible,” said Cameron Halliday, General Manager at Kau Sai Chau. The initiative comes only a few months after the course received official recognition for its environmental program as winners of the Asian Golf Course Environment Award.
NUMBERS GAME 110,000,000
The estimated earnings, in US$, of Tiger Woods over the past 12 months, making him the world’s highest-paid athlete for the eighth consecutive year. Of that total, ‘only’ 5 million was accrued from tournament earnings.
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The number of holes-in-one at the RBC Canadian Open in July. Some feat, considering the odds of an ace occurring at any given PGA Tour event is 6/4.
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The number of followers Open Champion Stewart Cink has to his Twitter page (twitter.com/stewartcink), making him the most popular golfer on the social networking site. Ian Poulter (twitter. com/ianjamespoulter) is the second most popular. Tiger Woods has not registered.
“ Boo Weekley sounds like a newspaper for ghosts. But it is not. It is in fact an American golfer. ” - BBC Radio during the first day’s play at the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry
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It’s All in the Movement Evan Rast profiles Cartier’s watchmaking evolution
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artier is a word that’s always But it was only in 2003 that the brand achieved this with a fully integrated on everyone’s wish list. There’s manufacture at La Chaux-de-Fonds, alongside a tourbillon workshop in Geneva. nothing like the sight of that Since then the company has focused on the development and production big red box with gold letters of movements for its exclusive line of watches. Last year we saw the release of to get you in an adoring, the Ballon Bleu with the 9452 MC calibre, a watch with a one-minute flying obliging, extremely jovial tourbillon and a C-shaped carriage at six o’clock Cartier’s emblematic movement mood. A household name for luxury, Cartier has with the Geneva Seal. This year, the 9452 MC has been used with two models, been the constant companion of the world’s rich, the Tank Americaine (HK$725,000) and the Santos 100. royal and famous since 1847. And if you know Led by its head of high watchmaking movements, Carole Forrestiermost of the stories about their fantastic jewels, Kasapi – who incidentally is considered a powerhouse in the industry given you would have undoubtedly heard how the her contributions to the development of Ulysse Nardin’s Freak, Audemars brand put itself on the watchmaking map. Piguet’s Grand Sonnerie, and A. Lange & Sohne’s Pour Le Merite Tourbillon Six years after starting up the business in – Cartier released an even bigger surprise this year with the Rotonde de Cartier Paris, Louis-Francois Cartier added timepieces Central Chronograph (HK$249,000), which features an entirely new into his fine jewellery line in the form of pocket house movement, the 9907 MC, equipped with a unique display in which the watches and ladies jewellery. But it was his minute and hour counters are co-axial in the centre of the dial. It has also been grandson Louis that made history when he constructed with a vertical coupling system for the chronograph function which designed the first ever wristwatch for men in reduces friction and energy consumption. Very well-received at the SIHH, the 1904, an idea he got from his friend and aviator Rotonde de Cartier Central is a real beauty up close. A l b e r t o S a n t o s -D u m o n t , who complained about the impracticality of pocket watches in flight. And the Santos, with its distinct square bezel and Roman numeral indices, has been a trademark for the brand ever since. The Sa ntos was qu ick ly f ol l owe d by a nu mb e r o f iconic models that are still being produced to this day: the Tonneau in 1906, Tortue Rotonde de Cartier in 1913 and the Tank in 1917. Tank Americaine Santos 100 Skeleton Central Chronographe Movements were assembled in France and made in Switzerland, with many innovative complications resulting The iconic Santos 100 (HK$365,000) has also been revamped this year, from the collaboration between Louis Cartier with an innovative skeleton movement developed entirely in-house, the 9611 and Edmond Jaeger of Jaeger-LeCoultre. MC. Graphically striking in its oversized palladium case, this new model has a Cartier has since undergone many changes, movement that was designed in the form of Roman numerals, so that what you including its acquisition by Joseph Kanoui and see as indicators are actually the bridges, wheels and other parts of the manually Robert Hocq in 1972 which eventually led to its winding calibre. being part of the Richemont Group. But one of Says Helene Poulit-Duquesne, Cartier’s marketing director, “the team chose the most exciting for its watchmaking heritage is the skeleton because we felt that it was representative of how Cartier has been definitely the achievement of being able to fully making its watches. Cartier does not do things like everyone else, especially in create its movements in-house, or for those who the way the movement is done. The process is very traditional yet there is always are following the industry closely, its evolution something new in terms of design.” into becoming a “true manufacturer.” So where does Cartier go from here? Duquesne reveals that Maison Cartier It was in the midst of the quartz revolution has a five-year plan in the works to expand its in-house production further. in the 70s, when Cartier decided to work toward “We have plenty of ideas for a new movement. Next year, you should be seeing fully controlling its movement production. something astonishing.” HKGOLFERMAGAZINE.COM
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