The Watch Industry Is on a Deep Dive to Save the World's Oceans

More recently, at the Baselworld fair in March 2018, Breguet announced its support of the Race for Water Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of ocean preservation and plastic pollution through the voyage of the Odyssey, a state-of-the-art vessel currently sailing the high seas to collect and analyze plastic waste in order to find solutions to this blight on the world's waters Naturally, Race for Water crew members are outfitted with a special edition of the Breguet Marine 5517 timepiece in titanium Ask the people on the receiving end of watchmaking's largesse and you'll find a slew of believers.

Its sales help fund Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, a Honolulu-based nonprofit that organizes beach cleanups around the islands "We had 417 people help remove 45,000 lbs of debris It was the dirtiest beach we ever cleaned up.

The shocking part was that it was almost 99 percent debris from abroad, not local This is why the global status of Bremont drawing attention to cleanups and plastic pollution education in Hawaii is so relevant." "People see it, people think about it, and that makes a difference We don't think we have the biggest impact; we think the people who see what we do have the biggest impact" "Part of the money you will spend on a watch will go to fund an organization fighting plastic," says French documentary filmmaker Jérôme Delafosse, who is sponsored by Oris. Source