The One Yacht and Design #21

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Forged from ethical steel that underscores a commitment to safeguarding the environment and species threatened with extinction like the eagles that inspired its name, the Chopard Alpine Eagle is sustainable luxury at its finest by Diego Tamone

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orm is like a good suit that adds tone to substance. Substance, for its part, is the material that gives form its clout. Form and

substance complete each other. All good design is about balance and the right balance between form and substance is a guarantee of longevity. This is particularly true of the haute horlogerie world where every single timepiece is designed quite literally to survive for ever. In the watch industry, design and precision mechanics are the tangible expression of the rather abstract concepts of form and substance. Never has this been more true than since the arrival of Chopard’s glorious Alpine Eagle, a model

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