Organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty?  » mehr

Um das zu begreifen, nehme man einen weltberühmten Geiger, am besten den vielleicht brillantesten und seriösesten der Vereinigten Staaten, und mache mit ihm etwas Nicht-Erhabenes, inszeniere man den Trash. Ein Experiment, geschehen in der Hauptstadt Washington. Nach 43 Minuten “Konzert” waren an dem Gebrauchsmusiker 1070 Leute vorüber gelaufen, die ihn insgesamt um 32,17 Dollar reicher gemacht hatten.  » mehr

Since 1986, when LAKS was established, the way to an innovative watch company was strongly accompanied by art, especially by the inspiration of Gustav Klimt. With this inspiration LAKS created a new extraordinary collection of art watches for its customers. The world`s largest collection of Klimt watches was the outcome – from now on LAKS was recognized as the “Klimt-Watch –Producer”. In 1997, we decided to show our fascination for this artist by creating a kind of virtual Klimt museum... » read more

LAKS has created watches for a long time. On its way to a world wide branding for art and technological watches (like smart transaction watch) we followed an inspiration. An inspiration that changed our LAKS  watch collection completely as we decided to start with a painting – The Kiss – from Gustav Klimt in 1989. What does it mean do start with a painting? We thought it was time to get something  ’new’ for the watch face. Something we were emotionally connected. Therefore,... » read more