CORUM is proud to announce that Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is the 2008 winner of THE GLOBAL BRAND ICON™ OF THE YEAR AWARD supported by the Swiss Watchmaking Brand. He is the second person to win this honor as the inaugural award was won in 2007 by Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize later that year. Jimmy Wales received a CORUM watch - the Romvlvs Dual Time in red gold - as a distinguished award at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore on August 14.
Jaeger-LeCoultre hosts a charity party during the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup at the International Polo Tournament of Sotogrande. ever the five Squadra ambassadors, joined forces in an exhibition match that helped to raise 16,000 Euros, representing an essential contribution to the work of the “Nuevo Futuro” association.
Jaeger-LeCoultre could not have hoped to choose a finer ambassador for a new partnership than the 27 year-old currently considered as the “little prince of polo”: Juan Martín Nero, or “Juanma” as he is known among friends. Driven by a wish to establish ever closer ties with the world of polo, Jaeger-LeCoultre has decided to support this talented young player from Argentina who is proving fully worthy of his elders, and to thereby broaden its team of professional players.
Steven Holtzman, founder of Maîtres du Temps, was accompanied on the Asia tour by legendary watchmaker Mr. Roger Dubuis, one of three master watchmakers behind the creation of Chapter One. The Asian series of presentations of Chapter One—the inaugural timepiece by Maîtres du Temps—began in Hong Kong and continued on to Taipei, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing.
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