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Patek Philippe's steel Grandmaster Chime comes with a reversible dial plate, which can be seen here(Christie's) ...

An undisturbed pile of rocks can provide a habitat for a few species.(Flurin Bertschinger/Ex-Press/BAFU) Switzerland may have been quick to join the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversityexteal link in 1992, but it’s lost momentum over the past three decades. For example, participating countries have agreed to set aside 17% of their land for conservation by 2020. With only about 7%, Switzerland is still far behind the target ...

As the US National Archives releases thousands of files covering the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this is how the Swiss reacted to his death, from the halls of govement to the streets. (SRF/rts.ch/swissinfo.ch) Rarely had th...

This content was published on October 9, 2017 11:00 AMOct 9, 2017 - 11:00 An exhibition of never-before-seen images of Eesto Che Guevara has visited some dozen Swiss towns, as part of a celebration organised by the Swiss-Cuba Association to mark a half-century since the revolutionary’s death.The “¡Che vive!” (“Che lives!”) exhibition features photos dating from the period f...

The Swiss are mouing the loss of one of their greatest sports heroes, speed climber Ueli Steck, who died on Sunday in the Himalaya. (SRF/swissinfo.chexteal link)Steck, dubbed the “Swiss Machine”, was 40 and one of the most celebrated climbers of his generation. He was killed after falling about 1000 metres to the foot of Mount Nuptse, a smaller peak in the area between Everest’s Camps 1 and 2....

Hands up who thinks creating bilingual schools outside canton Graubünden is a good way to keep Romansh alive (Keystone) Tough times for Romansh, Switzerland’s least-spoken national language. Not only is the Romansh chair at the University of Zurich under threat, but the official umbrella organisation complains that the language has been ignored by the national broadcaster. Just how serious is the situation – and what can be done? “Swiss language patriots up in arms – Romansh judged too expen...

Net debt, which once stood at $29 billion, should fall to $17 billion by the year’s end (Keystone) In business, a near-debt experience can easily tu into a near-death one. A year ago, shareholders were slapping the pallid cheeks of commodities-and-mining group Glencore and beseeching: “Don’t go towards the light!”xa0 On the evidence of interim results, Glencore has meandered back from the other side with only the odd angel feather clinging to its collar as evidence.xa0 The Swiss group has ma...

These are the stories we’re following in the week of July 18.xa0 (Keystone) Monday Will Swiss interests in the United States be better served by a Clinton or Trump presidency? The results of our survey of Swiss opinion leaders may surprise you. (Keystone) Tuesday Serbia is the latest country to look to Switzerland to help reform the country’s workforce. We interview Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, who is interested in leaing from Switzerland’s vocational training system. ...

Patrick Chappatte dans son atelier genevois. (swissinfo.ch) With a new exhibition, Windows on Death Row, Swiss joualist Anne-Frédérique Widmann and press cartoonist Patrick Chappatte aim to shine a light on the dark – and still taboo – subject of the death penalty in the United States.xa0 Over the course of a year spent in Califoia in 2014, the pair visited four penitentiaries and met some 30 death row inmates who contributed artworks to the project, depicting their situations. The exhibi...