As a final touch, ’56-3701F42′, the serial number of the destroyed weapon the metal is from, has been hand engraved beside the plate. It’s a subtle yet powerful reminder of just what this timepiece stands for. The Inversion Principle timepiece will be limited to just 20 pieces (10 in each metal) and will retail from US$350,000 with revenues from the sale of each timepiece used to fund the destruction of one thousand assault weapons in Africa.
Author: Edouard Chazal
As Banks in Cyprus Falter, Other Tax Havens Step In
The rush by rival havens could pose economic troubles as Cyprus struggles to keep afloat a financial industry that employs tens of thousands of people. Cypriot unemployment, already at 15 percent, is expected to soar as the finance sector and the overall economy contract, aggravating a crisis that the bailout was intended to solve.
Europe Scrambling With Last Minute Revision To Cyprus Deposit Confiscation Plan
In the meantime, what happens in Cyprus tonight, or tomorrow, and what the final confiscation schedule looks like, is merely bitter sweet victory for all those who have claimed that the European monetary experiment is finally coming to a long overdue end.
The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
How Frampton, who holds an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina and has been an adviser to the Department of Energy, ended up in Devoto appears at first to be a classic tale: a brilliant man of science gets into trouble as soon as he tries to navigate the real world. Since his arrest, he has certainly cultivated this notion, burnishing his wacky-scientist profile with lines like “That’s my naïveté” and “My mind works in a strange way.”
Landlord Blackstone Rushes To Capitalize On Housing Bubble
Blackstone is the largest asset manager in the sector, and demand for a securitization is thought to be so strong that any deal could go forward without needing credit ratings.
