The following five watches have their hearts in the right place, and represent steps in the right direction.
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To be clear about this, if you have not read the other articles on sustainability in watchmaking, there are bound to be plenty of disagreements on how to define a sustainable watch. Even for a climate-neutral company such as Oris, or a carbon-neutral group such as Mondaine.

On the other hand, if you buy a watch pre-owned, maybe it does not matter at all. There are too many unknowns to simply jump in and declare anything in the world truly sustainable. What we can do is consider timepieces that represent steps in the right direction.
The following list of watches is much shorter than we would like, and goes to show how far we have to go. On the other hand, until a few years ago, such watches simply did not exist so we should celebrate that. We do have to admit that even in this modest list of five watches, spanning a wide range of price points, there will no doubt be something to get flustered about. As we noted elsewhere, you can join the circular economy and get a pre-owned watch. That will check all the chic sustainability boxes; Greta would approve, in other words.

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